Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contradiction of a belief, still fairly current, that any creditable assemblage of early American art is impossible, this exhibition is presented. . . ." Thus, at the opening of the new American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, spoke Robert W. De Forest, President of the Museum, donor of the addition. A notable gathering listened, among them Lawyer Elihu Root, who also spoke. Said he: "We have here a chronicle of American history, more profound and more legible than any that the pen has ever created, for here is the concrete record that our forbears have left, not merely of their...
...fate of the Tsar and his family convulsed the world with disgust and loathing for the Bolsheviki, she declined to believe that her son and his family were murdered. From that day to this, despite that unfortunate confirmation of the worst, she has remained steadfast in her belief that Tsar Nicholas still lives...
Last week, on a Canadian Pacific train, a man was killed by a bomb in- tended for him-a man who, in the passionate belief of many Russians, was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Peter Veregin was head of the Russian sect known as Doukhobors. Wherever he went in his country, over bleak steppes, through frozen streets, peasants and quality lifted up their hands to him, or left their homes to follow (unfed but by their own harsh ecstacy) the passage of his footsteps through the winter of the land. Such a one does not go without enemies, though...
...finger on any particular deficiency in the Harvard team. Such an overwhelming defeat is explained by weaknesses in many departments of the game, which when all brought together in one contest, result in a disasterously feeble combination. Journalistic writers in general think the Crimson squad was slightly overtrained. This belief was gained by the lack of punch, pep, vitality or whatever one may wish to call it displayed last Saturday. But this can also be explained by the psychological effect made by the Tiger's first attack. It told Harvard that it was up against a strong Princeton team...
Professor Lewis declared that his, belief in the existence of God was based entirely on his moral sense. Declaring that the word "ought" represented not a personal principle or law, but "the ultimate-fact of human life", Professor Lewis described God as the moral force without which all life would be meaningless and futile...