Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers doubted whether a jury would award $50,000 in the belief that at the fatal hour of 4:30 a. m. the Canadian Staff was still heavily discounting the fact that the Armistice negotiations had begun 3 days previously...
...classification was right in some respects: witness the time-honored belief in German thoroughness. The continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars...
...belief that Italy will force issue with Serbia as a threat to England, France and Germany-to force them to actively interest themselves in the settlement of her dispute with Serbia...
...certain instructor, irritated at the cautious progress and boasting manner of his flying pupil, decided to test the old swimming hole belief. They took off on an instruction flight in a machine with dual controls, one for the instructor and the other for the student...
...enemy have made a law that it hurts me to go on these drives. . . . I do not take these drives for recreation but because I want to establish dominion over mortal minds antagonistic to belief." In the evenings, after dinner, Mrs. Eddy would sit in the window of her house, staring out at the people who went by. There was tremendous enchantment for her in the tragic and anonymous parade that passes forever in front of all the windows in the world...