Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Papal decree, nuns have supplanted priests as inspectors of feminine attire in the Vatican in the belief that nuns would be "less indulgent of impropriety...
Czechoslovakia's official press service soon fulminated that President Masaryk had never spoken as quoted by Dr. Rajniss, did not deny that the interview had taken place, could not down widespread belief that the President had sent up a trial balloon...
Cohen's acts and the publicity that has been given them may be all right from the standpoint of sensationalism and a longing for notoriety but the serious minded of Socialistic belief will agree that they do far more harm to the cause which the young man has espoused than they can possibly do good. They place upon Socialism the stigma of absurdity and scorn--and the doctrine already has about all it can stagger under of these two impediments to its progress...
...purpose of the donors is expressed in a statement that they gave the fund "in the belief that the artistic development of a given nation in architecture, sculpture, and painting should be studied as an integral part of national life, closely allied to social conditions, intellectual tendencies, and literary movements...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...