Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well as I do that the power of making tariffs could not be transferred from Congress to a commission without an amendment to the Federal Constitution, and there was no reason for that statement at Boston, unless it was intended to mislead the people as to what my belief about the tariff...
...occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
...REASON-Philip Gibbs*-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). As usual, Author Gibbs is out to prove something-this time that a system of philosophy is bound to go on the rocks if it counts God out. There was no room for God in Hesketh's firm belief that some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with...
...belief of the coaches that the Crimson's showing Saturday will be in a large measure dependent upon the ability of the secondary to check Dartmouth passes. The line showed its power in piling up the Cadet attack last Saturday, and the same forward wall will be intact this week...
There was a tremendous revelation of the degree of intolerance, the unscientific absolutist dictatorship of religious feeling, of the legislators and people of Tennessee in the Scopes Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable...