Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population be given about as much warning as it would get in wartime, that gas masks and other protection be provided for the citizens and "possibly . . . horses," that the city then be gassed. This would show, thought Dr. Holmes, the humanity of gas as a weapon. "The belief that gas warfare is devilish should be abolished." Dr. Holmes was talking throughout only about tear gases (bromacetone, xylyl bromide, diphosgene...
Ingersoll's Belief...
...choice of terms, but it is sometimes hard to tell when TIME is quoting and when TIME is merely trying to be funny in the college humor fashion, and in either event TIME might keep itself better informed. In order to forestall any attempted wisecracks about my religious beliefs, please note that I believe in God, and that my faith is neither helped nor hurt by TIME's jackassery. And I may add that my authority for Ingersoll's agnosticism-not atheism- is, in addition to the evidence of his lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably...
...which the Cunningham treatment rests. As independent investigators have never checked up on the subject (for reasons that are rather obvious-namely, the tremendous expense of the apparatus) there is nothing to support Dr. Cunningham's statements or theories except his own unsupported word.... It is our personal belief that Dr. Cunningham, at any rate at the outset, was perfectly sincere and honest in his belief that he had stumbled on something. As is always the case, however, when some new method of treating human beings is carried out without any independent check or balances, there seems little doubt...
...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...