Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expounding here the belief which he has expressed in several magazine articles recently, that journalism needs to pull itself up by its bootstraps...
...reaches the ground. This theory, it is true, had never been verified, since persons so falling have always lost consciousness upon impact with the ground or street, never to regain it. Last week, two army aviators-Sergeant Randall L. Bose, Corporal Arthur Bergo-set themselves to disprove the belief. At Mitchel Field, L. I., they ascended to a height of 3,000 feet in a bombing plane, leaped out with closed parachutes. A large crowd had gathered below. This crowd saw the two begin their plunge, waited to see them open their parachutes. After descending a short distance, however...
...Lowrie heartlessly destroys the long-cherished belief that Europe excels America in wide dissemination of culture, in unrestrained individualism, and in tolerance. Centuries of enforced hallelujahs to a reigning caste have broken down any respect for individual merit, he says, and goes on heretically: "There is no taboo among us, however silly, that cannot be matched by an equally senseless one characteristic of European castes." Lest the minions of enraged ship-owners should rush incontinently upon him, however, Mr. Lowrie hastens to add that he is not discouraging in the least the desire to see the beauties of Europe...
...Kallen states as his belief: "If education has established habits of such a sort that no claim to authority can be acknowledge before it has made itself good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately...
Later, Mr. Couzens declared in the Senate his belief that the Treasury had had the memorandum in question for more than two years, that the memorandum had been prepared at that time by Thompson & Black, Manhattan Accountants, in order to "get" Henry Ford, who was then having a contest with Truman H. Newberry over a seat in the Senate...