Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Jan. 9 and dealing with the dedication of his great fortune to the cause of humanity, was totally lacking in these attributes. On first reading it seemed to drip venom. After a second perusal, however, I doubt if its maliciousness was intentional. . . . It is my belief bottomed upon years of experience, that while a newspaper should and can be better than the community in which it is published, it must not be too much better or it will rapidly reach the state of bankruptcy in which Bonfils and Tammen found the Denver Post back...
...irony latent in the fact that Walt Whitman's fame exists solely among the "scholar swells" he despised, and that he is absolutely unknown to the commonality of man for whom he professed to write, or that the incredibly ornate pish-posh of Henry James is explained by his belief that legible and comprehensive language of any sort is very vulgar, just, for instance, as an editor of the Harvard Crimson believes that any news anybody could conceivably want to read is very vulgar and therefore unprintable, to point out these is to illuminate the obvious...
...Senators, mostly southern, who remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such heated squabbles in Congress over party issues have historical precedent. Nor are the man's allegations concerning the Mexican plot more than the chimerae of one who sees priests behind trees, seditious sermons in running brooks, and Jesuit...
Inasmuch as the Twentieth Century abounds in paradoxes, it is not the vogue to express either amazement or bewilderment over the sometimes irreconcilable phenomena of modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of compulsory golf at Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified...
...Sperry after years of research. The new motor weighs close to the lightest gasoline engine; is capable of delivering speed and horsepower comparable to good racing motors of the normal type. Experts read the news with deepest interest, hoping that widespread tests will confirm Mr. Sperry's belief that the new power plant meets every air requirement ; that by elimination of the fire hazard it will add an enormous safety factor to flying; particularly for commercial and passenger planes...