Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...
...other citizens present remained serious. Thomas E. Donnelley, Chairman of the Citizens' Committee, considered the report with the cold eye of a printer who knows a good deal about statistics and announced with Irish candor his belief that Chicago crime had not been materially stamped out. Mr. Donnelley said: "I know from secret sources that criminals in Chicago are watching this meeting and wondering whether this is the beginning of a rising of citizens. If it ends in talk, praising this person and that person, saying we are better than we are, we will be missing the greatest opportunity...
...hireling agents of mere mischief." The jury, having deliberated 14 minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty; and soon the Lord Chief Justice imposed upon two makers of "mere mischief" sentences of 10 years imprisonment each. Commenting on the trial, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg vigorously stressed his belief that only part of a general Russian-subsidized spy system had been uncovered. "Unluckily," said he "we have not been able to gather in our net all those concerned, though I trust the result of this trial will make others think before they pursue their dangerous and treasonable activity...
...Story, even before it became gospel truth, had been told many times and in many ways. Its outlines, the framework that is a matter of fact, not opinion, belief or hypothesis, remains comparatively fixed. It begins on a morning in Bethlehem, Palestine, when a woman called Mary gave birth to a small child whose father was either, according to the faith or cynicism of the reader, her husband or the Almighty...
...other recountals of the life of God's son; they have, all taken together, enough contradictions to make their corroborations doubtful. The purpose of the biographies of Christ that have been written in modern times are varied, but most are preoccupied with presenting a point of view, a belief, a doctrine. Author Case has a different motive; his aim is merely to disentangle the truth from the myth, to discover and state what is fact and what has been added to fact to make it more appealing or more exciting...