Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaty tasks to its heirs. A carefully done report on class affairs was passed, and now it shall have to be enacted. Another fine job, the freshman affairs report, should not stay in the files too long. And when more than one Council-run election was bungled beyond all belief last year, it became evident that there was work to be done here...
Citing the long criminal records of the defendants, the judge said, "Nothing in the records of any one of them warrants the belief that they will ever be useful or be anything but a menace to society. They will receive a sentence which will remove them as a menace for a long period...
Slow Going. But the Senators would find Little a hardheaded witness with a plausible story to tell. Little has never made a secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that his Southern workers' productivity was one-third higher than that of his New England crews. One reason was that Southern plants could be run on three shifts; most New Englanders refused to work night shifts. "When you can't work your plant three shifts a day," said Little...
Professor Anton R. Zhebrak is a Soviet geneticist who has enjoyed international respect. Like most reputable scientists, he has believed in the Morgan-Mendelian theory of genetics (i.e., hereditary characteristics are controlled by genes which cannot be altered by ordinary environmental conditions). That belief made him a heretic in Russia, where science must take the Communist view that Environment Is All. Last year Zhebrak was roundly denounced by Pravda for admitting in the U.S. weekly, Science, that many Russian geneticists still uphold Mendel's laws (TIME, Sept...
Pictured in these nine volumes, this view of the world seems somewhat absurd. It also reflects, beneath its bogus overtones, a belief fairly prevalent in the U.S. from...