Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homeopathy is a system of healing founded by Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann, German physician, in the late 18th Century. The name (literally, "like disease") refers to the belief that "like cures like"; i.e., that diseases can be cured by tiny doses of drugs that produce effects on the body like the symptoms of the disease. In the U.S., medical schools that were once homeopathic have been turning away from Hahnemann's teachings, toward orthodoxy and American Medical Association recognition. Last September, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, once a center of homeopathy, dropped homeopathy as a required course; Manhattan...
...test came when he caught a German deserter slipping into a ghetto tunnel. Should he return the soldier to the Germans or hand him over to the Jewish leader, to certain death in either case? Or should he save the deserter's skin? Weinstock stuck by his belief in the immediate human act; he hid the soldier. Later, when the British came, some former concentration-camp prisoners recognized the German deserter as a guard who had shot helpless men. They killed...
Lamont Library marks a return to the belief that education is based on unrestricted access to all that humanity has thought and experienced, Provost Buck told the audience at the dedication of the new library yesterday afternoon. "Our worser selves have had little confidence in the capacity of man to solve his fate, have treated our students as though they were children, and so have sought to substitute for free inquiry, discipline and restraint," he said...
...your reviews of The Snake Pit and Albert Deutsch's The Shame of the States [TIME, Dec. 20]. They both show our need for better facilities and staffing for our mental institutions. Twice I have been resident in Elgin State Hospital (Ill.) as a patient ... It is my belief that mental illness is no more serious than many other of the serious illnesses such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and heart trouble...
...tests on an odd-looking plane that seemed to have swallowed its tail. Called the X-4, it is a batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...