Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...malcontents, and their political spokesmen, during three Administrations. His record of financial diplomacy and impartial advice has won him the confidence of all but professional farm agitators. In his opinion, there would have been no Farm Problem this year but for the election. McNary-Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post-War depression as "the inevitable aftermath." No price-fixing laws would save them...
Overwhelming eye witness & circumstantial evidence supports the general belief that Anastasia was murdered with the Tsar & Family, at Ekaterinburg, East Russia, on July...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, had a shrewd idea that appealed from its start to all women of ample figure. Says she: "It was my firm belief that fashion was slighting such women, was making smart dressing difficult for them. Merely supplying 'large sizes' of current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly...
...President Coolidge's speech was many a ringing sentence such as: "Our doctrine of equality and liberty of humanity and charity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood...