Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Frank M. Mulligan, 73, architect, whom a Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) audience once loudly cheered in the belief that he was bushy-haired Mark Twain; at Elizabeth, N. J., of an apoplectic stroke...
...Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
Wynant D. Hubbard must be credited with an honest desire to get at the root of the Princeton-Harvard break by publishing his article in Liberty, accusing Princeton football teams of "dirty" tactics. He says, "I am writing this article with the sincere belief that it may help to clear the football air...that relations between Harvard and Princeton may eventually be resumed." It is highly unfortunate that such good intentions have been so unintelligently acted upon...
...School has given," remarked Professor Beale, "and given without hope or desire for return. But, in the present crisis, we can and will ask alumni to do what they can as an earnest expression of their belief in the School...
...they would not support any future war, and 740 that they were "ready to support some wars and not others." Only 95 held to the traditional view that any war declared by the recognized authority of their country would receive their active cooperation. Almost all the delegates declared their belief that the "present economic system based on production for profit rather than production for use is wrong" while 592 agreed that the present system should be displaced by "a cooperative distribution system in which the workers themselves would share in the control...