Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veins of the Bourbons is blue-and once let, it runs and runs. Not simply royal memories but an old, hereditary fact accompanies this family in its exile: hemophilia. Unlike thrones, hemophilia is not transmitted from father to son, but from mother to son. Contrary to popular belief, hemophiliacs do not bleed incessantly, but the flow of blood, once started, takes a longer time to coagulate. Most of the recent treatment depends on the, theory that the elements of hemophilia are present in the female, but are held in check by some female "essence." Injections of placental extract or ovarian...
Back of the whole set-up was a belief that the more plain workmanship with canvas, wood, stone, metals, textiles, clay and color goes on in a country, the finer fine arts it may produce. Holger Cahill is fond of using a fact of nature to illustrate his theory of national art: "You don't often find mountains where there is no plateau." Hostile critics have rejoined that plateaus and genuine art movements alike are beyond the power of governments to create. But even such critics admit that the Federal Art Project has gone about...
...Joseph Banks Rhine published his telepathy theories, "ExtraSensory Perception" (ESP) became the brief rage of women's clubs all over the U. S. Commander Eugene Francis McDonald Jr., energetic president of Zenith Radio Corp. and long a believer in thought transference, saw a chance to prove his belief in a big way by putting ESP on the air. Zenith sponsored network radio experiments in the Rhine technique, put the tests in the scientific hands of Northwestern University's Psychologists Drs. Louis Deal Goodfellow and Robert Harvey Gault...
...letter asked each of us to bequeath the cornea with a pious reference to Mr. Harding being a Minister. The letter indicated that it was Mr. Hardings belief that death was a matter of a few days in the future and that he wanted his cornea right away. Naturally you can appreciate this was impossible to work out in this...
...same time, perhaps with a professor's love for upsetting convictions, B.A., M.A., and LL.B. Berle challenged the prevailing belief in the efficiency of large-scale production: "It is familiarly insisted that the old-fashioned farm was an inefficient unit. Yet if, besides the assumed cost of production, there were taken into account the continuity of employment, the ability to use energies of adolescents and of old people, the ability to take care of sickness and give some scope for individual creation and the like, it might prove that ... the old-fashioned farm was one of the most effective...