Word: belief
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Contrary to general belief, only a small part of the 36,000,000 British adults belong to the Church of England, whose membership is only 2,294,000. This is not much more than England's 2,200,000 Roman Catholics, or the 1.938,700 Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and others whom the Anglicans lump under the heading of "Nonconformists." Attendance at Church of England service is known as "going to church." Attendance at any other Protestant service is known as "going to chapel." In the U.S., the Federal Council of Churches was formed in 1908, but the Episcopal Church...
...even forgeting this period in our national history, it is hard to hold a brief for American purity. The very essence of belief in democracy denies it. We lay claim to basic truth because we feel there is a common bond in the wants of all men, because we feel that the hopes and fears that are in us are in others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny...
...consider the 12 months' course an equivalent for our two-year program. Nor would we be willing to sacrifice the longer program permanently to a 12 months' course for the entire school. It is my personal belief, how- ever that the two programs can be so coordinated that the longer course is actually strengthened in quality. The shorter course, if it works out as well as we expect, will meet a real social need...
Said the Times: "Money is the root of many of the evils of production. . . . Resentment about low wages ... is fanned by the belief that extra effort by the workers is helping to add to private profits as well as to the strength of our war machine. . . . Concern about the future is being given too prominent a place in the plans and activities of too many industrial concerns. . . . Even ministers shrink from upsetting normal trade practice. . . . Men of vision cannot fail to see that humanity is passing at this moment through the fire of social revolution as well as of universal...
More important to prospective draftees is the belief of Selective Service Chief Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey that the Army can reach this goal without drafting men with bona fide dependents. There are still 1,000,000 undrafted men in the Class 1-A pool of the first registration; from the second, on Feb. 16, General Hershey. expects to net easily another...