Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the latter gentleman ought to command more respect, as he at least shows some signs of life when Christmas gets around. In that respect the children show more signs of intelligence than their elders. They believe in St. Nick and at least have something to show for their beliefs, while what can their elders show for their belief in His Celestial Majesty? Belief in the former has always brought joy and good fellowship, while belief in the latter has brought nothing but strife and bloodshed ever since the race succumbed to its dread influence. Kindly look up the following...
...week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
...such consistently anti-Red news organs as the Chicago Tribune printed a United Press story in which the horrid discovery was revealed that "one of the [Arcos, Ltd.] rooms was furnished with tables and chairs, leading to the belief that it was a secret soviet meeting-room...
...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
...wide and profound learning, as well as a poet, and an admirer of the creations of the mind which constitute our civilization, he has set himself the problem of discussing the basis of the intellectual life. The exterior dissimilarities of the sciences and arts have lead to the belief that they are widely separated. 'These labors, however, differ only by variations from a common basis." So he goes beneath the surface, down into the depths of the mind as it is at work in propounding a mathematical or physical law, in conceiving a great architectural structure, in finding...