Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manager Carl U. Fauster, President of the Association, were: "College Humor through its general makeup has misrepresented the colleges and created false impressions about college life. . . . College Humor is claimed to be receiving advertisements on the assumption that as a magazine it covers the college field whereas the general belief expressed is that it does not cover the field but is read mostly by factory girls, drug store cowboys and high school students...
...hours he was imprisoned again. For, the newest ordinance read that in the name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed-dour example to weary-hearted German soldiers. Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage. His peasant simplicity won belief in the hearts of guards, officers, and even old Commander von Lychow...
Lazarus. It was not the intention of Dr. Gore and his associates to undermine belief in the supernatural. They declared that evidence for the actual existence of Christ and his Resurrection was "overwhelming." The account of the raising of Lazarus "is accepted with all its implications as the climax of all the miracles of healing." They warned against any tendency to explain away the vital points in Christian faith...
...Cambridge team, an all New Haven team, and so on down even to an all New Jersey team, the cravings of the boys who love to fool themselves will be filled; and happily to relate everyone will be just where they were before the sporting public replaced a belief in Santa Claus with a serious minded acceptance of the infallibility of sportswriters...
...delight in epigrams which borders on the abnormal, and when conscious of himself and of his flawless oratorical manner he is at his worst. It is only when, forgetting the polished phrases and impressive periods which he has designed, he suddenly loses himself in the deep fervor of his belief, in the white heat of his emotion, that his eloquence rises to really lofty heights...