Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building was fired deliberately, according to belief in Peking, to cover extensive thefts of art objects by Imperial servants. It is reported that wealthy Americans and Britons are the beneficiaries of this transaction. Other reports suggest that intrigues and jealousy in the Imperial Household are the causes...
...Judd. 7) At Mesa Verde National Park and the Rio Mimbres valley, New Mexico, a pipe shrine house, traces of a dice game, and other cliff-dwelling relics, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Smithsonian Institution. 8) In mounds at Albany, Ore., remains which indicate, in the belief of Dr. Edwin T. Hodge, of the University of Oregon, that the American aborigines, following the coast southward from Behring Straits, spread fanlike over the continent through the Columbia River...
...French Bureau of Information gives this resumé of conferences in the hope of establishing a general belief that France has shown all along a policy of moderation...
...Meikeljohn's removal spoke semi-officially as follows: " Professors Fitch, Hamilton and Stewart and Associate professors Gaus, Agard and Hinners have resigned from the Amherst faculty, alleging in substance that freedom of study and discussion will no longer be possible at Amherst. What the grounds for the belief of this statement are have not yet been submitted. Meanwhile friends of education and of Amherst may well await the appointments to the Faculty to be made by President-elect Olds before determining the question whether or not the Amherst of the future is to be conservative or liberal...
...result of experience while retaining the object; or to state the same thing in a larger way, if the purpose of a man in life is to do something of real value, and after sufficient trial he becomes convinced that his abilities or circumstances do not justify a belief that he can do so in the direction that he first proposed, he is not a failure if he strike out undiscouraged on another line...