Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must readily concede that there is ample reason why a college man is justified in giving up distance running after he has entered business. It is may belief that there is more wear on a man's physique in distance running than, for instance, in the quarter and half-mile events. The training for the two-mile run must perforce be arduous. This is particularly true in the summer season, because training in warm weather caused loss of weight, and this, in turn, brings on exhaustion and loss of nervous energy...
...Yale News the expression of people unacquainted with the state of things in the past. While there are few of the undergraduates here who have known the Harvard of yesterday there is at least consistency in their stand and even more, for they have turned further from a belief in the status...
...have accepted with full belief in the wisdom of our counselors the almost unanimous opinion that the National Crime Commission should put its principal effort into stimulating and assisting the creation of state commissions in all the states of the nation...
Because Minister of Interior Jean Louis Malvy fell in a swoon (TIME, March 29) while enraged Deputies shrieked, "Traitor! Pig! Lover of Mata Hari!" and because he subsequently resigned from Premier Briand's Cabinet (TIME, April 19), many Frenchmen had been strengthened in their belief of the nine-year-old charge that he was once the lover of Mata Hari, a Javanese-Dutch dancer, who allegedly secured and sold to Germany secrets concerning the British tank (1917) and was shot as a spy on French soil a few months later...
...accept the same God in their hearts, though they may worship in the same church. But there is a certain dogma of behavior?the unwritten doctrine of good taste?that binds together in liberty of thought, forbidding any individual to thrust upon another his tailor, his ambition, his belief in God. When Sinclair Lewis, able novelist, violated this universal doctrine in a church in Kansas City, he offended equally believers and skeptics, as hundreds of editorials in last week's press bore witness...