Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some time, I have thought it a good and logical corollary of TIME'S support of our exciting air growth to support a program for the development of a "safety spirit" among potential airplane passengers. It is no mystery that there exists today the prevalent and discouraging belief that planes are still dangerous. Why couldn't TIME take the lead in dispelling this blight on progress? If any organ...
...This belief arose when Dr. Nier found that the oldest deposits of ordinary lead tend to have more of the isotope 204 in proportion to the isotopes 206, 207, and 208, than the younger deposits...
...becoming more and more widespread, but also like Economics it is a subject in which one cannot gain practical experience in College. The recent large increase was perhaps mainly due to the fact that students who were not really interested in the subject concentrated in it in the belief that it would help them in Government or business. As taught here, the field is theoretical...
...went on to say that "at no time could I complain of the Attitude of the University administration, especially Messrs. Durant and Lowes," thus tacitly clinging to the belief that janitors and certain minor officers had been the men responsible for fostering a "company dominated union...
...necessary because the tail will never be near the ground. Passengers in sleeper planes will no longer be wakened by the rearward slant at each landing. The plane can take off relatively quickly, can "fly into" a landing. Blind landings will therefore be less dangerous, and, contrary to general belief, fields will not have to be extended for landing nor huge catapults employed to get DC-4 into...