Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany's immediate past and a rosy canvas of her future, Mr. Houghton, soon to be U.S. Ambassador to Britain (where he will not be allowed to remain silent), proposed a toast to Baron von Maltzan whom he described as "always calm, always steady, with an unshaken belief in Germany's future and with an eager desire to rebuild her relations with America on a lasting basis of peace...
After all, why not? Belief in a beetle god led the Egyptians to raise huge pyramids, the wonder of the world. Belief in his star of destiny led Napoleon to conquer Europe. Perhaps belief in a well tested fountain pen--psychologically soothing will lead the D-man to the broad beckoning plain of C. Try anything once...
...obvious fact connected with the matter is that people will not be awed into belief by such hocus-pocus proceedings. It looks like a clear case for competent and disinterested physicians to investigate...
Dean Pound made no definite statement as to his plans for the future, but laughingly ascribed the large size of his audience to the prevailing belief that this meeting would be one of his "Last appearances in public...
...subject of the lecture yesterday afternoon was "Religion in Legal History," and in the course of his speech, Dean Pound traced the varying influence of religions of various periods of history on the legal manners or practices of the times, and ended by expressing his belief that the time would come when men would obey the Law of the land, "not because they must, but because they ought...