Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Renewing her subscription, a charter subscriber wants at the same time to express her belief that TIME has fulfilled its promises and her expectations of four years ago, in every particular. She would hate giving up Atlantic and Harper's monthly magazines, Christian Century, Saturday Review of Literature, or the daily New York Times, but rather than to do without TIME, she believes herself willing to forego almost any two of the others in its favor...
Leading U. S. dailies recorded the belief of their correspondents in the genuineness of the Zurich report, described the isles of exile collectively as "The Italian Siberia...
...opening editorial today the News says. "In the belief that the first duty of a newspaper is to survey news, we are devoting our best energy not to discovering the University's shortcomings and seeking to solve its problems but to making the paper more readable and more efficient in covering its field. With this aim it seemed expedient to depart from the custom of publishing an elaborate platform...
...belief that the official attitude of Harvard University toward Missions may best be expressed through the Harvard Mission, an organization, which forms a part of the Phillips Brooks House Association and which forms as its express purpose "to arouse maintain and increase the increase and participation of Harvard men in the work of Christian Missions". Granting that there is nothing in the editorial mentioned above which could reasonably be interpreted to cast reflections upon the work of this organization, we wish to take this opportunity to express our attitude toward Mission work...
...Mikado, who died some little time ago, was revered by Japanese the world over as a deity supposedly a lineal descendant of the mythical sun-god. Funeral celebrations by his subjects in all lands are held at night, because of a belief that the imperial spirit must go from darkness to darkness...