Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discover Harvard's own representative in the act of regaining some of the unique distinction...time...is held to have been filtered away, and that in the sister--or parent--university, which two years ago sent its debaters to the American Cambridge. Mr. Eliot showed that the foundation belief in international good will which underlies the systems of foreign studentships is not a fallacy. The hope of explaining Nicaraguan excursions, Philippines uprisings, Armistice Day speeches, was slight almost to despair, but the explanation is made, and satisfactorily, too, in the very lair of the suspicious lion. To the Lionel...
...feels a certain desire to escape the memories of over-assiduous home-town charities and clubs, and that the less worthy, as well as the more worthy of these, wear the name of religion. Whether one approves or not, the contemporary attitude is distinctly not religious; and in the belief that P. B. H. is fundamentally religious, and therefore slightly emasculated, lies much of the innate indifference of the under graduate toward it. The conference will show that the organization is one with the flabby efforts of misguided philanthropy, which the new student has generally met. When this misconception...
...Only she and William Haines were in working clothes that day. taking the last scenes of a comedy about a girl who lets the movies swell her head. Hollywood directors distrust pictures that turn the camera on itself, believing illusion is an asset always more valuable than intimacy. Their belief is supported by Show People which, in spite of Marion Davies' acting. King Vidor's directing, and the hilarious rehearsal of a pie-comedy, reminds you that Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies, written seven years ago, was both funnier and more human than anything...
Thus was shattered the belief that President Coolidge would not lift finger or utter syllable directly to affect the election's result...
...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...