Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be difficult for me to conceive of any one being able to administer the duties of a great office like the Presidency without a belief in the guidance of a Divine Providence...
Ebbecke of Bonn pointed put that, contrary to vulgar belief, white hands might be warm, red hands cold. Temperature depends upon the amount of blood in circulation. Tint depends upon the location of the capillaries through which the blood seeps...
...tends to strengthen the truth that cancer is not due to a living agent comparable to those responsible for the infectious diseases, nor does it appear to be due to a cytotropic virus. These considerations should lead us to believe that cancer is not a communicable disease and this belief should be spread among physicians and the public...
...More Belief Outside Religion...
...tenacious belief in a government of laws the like of which the world has never seen elsewhere...There are now on the statute books of the nation and the states no fewer than twenty thousand laws relating to the railroads alone. Thomas Jefferson once asserted that a government was best when it governed least. What would he say, were he to rise from his grave and survey a government which practices the principle of non-interference to the tune of twenty thousand statutes affecting a single branch of our transportation system...