Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Cook, a conservative historian, has resigned because of the firings. A letter signed by 430 leading educators and scholars was sent to the Board of Regents claiming that its action was tantamount to the establishment of "a standard of political orthodoxy . . . the next step may be whether a belief in Catholicism or the single tax are acceptable. Both of these are doctrines of considerable rigidity and both have been at times highly unpopular...
...belief that people everywhere should have access to whatever publications they want to read...
...Dennis cover and your sympathetic narration of the man's activities strengthen my steadily growing belief . that the red borders on your covers should be widened...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
From the U.S. Army of World War I, Pratt picks Charles P. Summerall, another artilleryman who rose to be a corps commander. Unlike his big-gun colleagues who advocated steamroller barrages, Summerall believed in pinpoint targets, but what endears him most to Pratt is his flat belief that "artillery exists only to protect and support infantry...