Word: belief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME for Oct. 9, your interesting account of submarine warfare leaves me a bit puzzled. As a civilian ... I have held for some time the belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
Certainly a member of the Harvard teaching staff should know that experience is the greatest teacher. But it is evident that Professor McLaughlin learned little from that most bitter lesson, the World War. Indeed, he rushes blindly into the most high-flown assumptions, such as the belief that truth travels with the British navy. Before making such indiscreet statements, he might well study the historical background of this nation, and re-examine the problems of today in its light. He would then find that the propagandists of the last war wrote better than they knew, that the only war this...
...Concordat would tamper with belief in the episcopally ordained priesthood, dear to the Episcopal Church, "as to at least two-thirds of all Christians in this world...
...readers who think they are being invited to a rip-roaring wake over Communism's corpse will find that Henry Bamford Parkes, despite the title of his book, has no such jamboree in mind. Even Marxists may concede that the body of their belief, with all its nobility of purpose, its elaborate doctrine, its often tragic record in action, has rarely undergone such delicate surgery. For the argument of this book goes far deeper than any current disillusionment with a "discredited" Communism...
...discussing the action in the government department, Professor Holcombe stated that in his belief by the time the recommendations were made all early objections to procedure had been smoothed out and every one in the department approved. From February on there were conferences about the permanent appointment that ultimately went to Payson Wild, now associate professor of Government...