Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief that only 10% of the farmers' troubles can be cured by legislation, that the other 90% must be solved by the farmers themselves...
...theory to the plans which Professor Baker was anxious to perfect, and therefore it had no valid reason for making a special effort to finance such a development. Holding this opinion, the Corporation was perfectly justified in devoting its energies to the aid of those departments which in its belief not only needed assistance badly but were of major importance to the growth of the University...
...days of scholastic metaphysics the existence of God and of a future life was proved upon the basis of the existence of ideas of them, and it seems that these same outological methods are still the ones that lend tenacity to belief in spiritualism. Scientific methods can go on disproving forever, and yet they cannot be conclusive for people whose desire is their belief. Even a dramatic expose like the recent one in London where "spirits" photographs were recognized as living pugilists and show girls does not seem to quash the idea. It is one which humanity cherishes, and therefore...
...today. When Dean Whitney lunched with the Gore Committee yesterday, the subject was broached. The Dean explained that if all the Dormitory Committees should petition, he would institute the plan provisionally. Individual members of the Smith and Standish Committees declared themselves in favor of the idea. They expressed the belief that their committees would petition tomorrow...
...becomes constantly stronger to predict the reaching of an ascertainable turning point in business expansion. Already signs, such as heavy pig iron and steel production, which usually accompany or only slightly precede the crest of business prosperity, are seen. There is a large school 'which adheres to the belief, consciously or not, that all "business cycles" are alike in duration as well as in general theory and phenomena. Hence some "financial services" are already bearish on the stock market and are becoming pessimistic over the business outlook also. No prophet can, of course, be entirely disproved until after...