Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe that he is a great evangelist of human faith and progress. Probably such a belief is necessary to such a play. Without faith one cannot be furiously one-sided...
...particular object for which this corporation is formed is as follows: To abolish the belief in God together with all forms of religion based on that belief. In prosecuting its work, which shall be purely destructive, a radio station shall be erected for the delivery and broadcasting of lectures, debates and discussions on the subjects of science and religion, and it shall publish and distribute scientific and anti-religious literature and conduct a general propaganda against the church and the clergy...
...tackles all afternoon, and it is not for sheer love of sport that they are now getting ready to grind through signal practice by artificial light. In fact, all this practicing is mighty hard work; ever so much more work than brain work. There is a malicious popular belief that football players are not naturally inclined toward brain work. This is unfair: football players have merely chosen the sterner course. Many more fail at this course than at brain-courses. Only a few men each year, out of dozens of candidates, win their letter. It is much more difficult...
...practice of importing coaches to which some of the other colleges, most of them in fact, are addicted. This certainly is a movement in the right direction. "Your committee," says the report, "repeats its declared policy of further and more radical agreements with Yale and Princeton and expresses its belief and hope that these three universities may set up a standard which will improve all college athletics." And then there is this declaration...
Every year an innumerable horde of boys and girls from every variety of home storm the citadels of learning drawn there in the main by a common belief that college is a blessed institution for increasing money-making ability. And every year a similar multitude of young men and women are sent forth to their sordid battle from the gates of our colleges armed with a sheepskin, a bundle of new desires, a few common-place rules of economics, and with hardly a trace of originality among them--an army of pygmies fresh from the mold. The procession...