Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not withhold food from any peoples who were starving -not even the enemies of democracy. But, by the same token, nondemocratic nations drawing U.S. relief would not be allowed to starve the friends of democracy. Distribution must be "without discrimination as to race, creed or political belief...
Elected conductor of the Glee Club in 1934, Woodworth has gradually swung to a belief in the strong and simple in music as well as in a love for Nantucket and old railroad locomotives. Listening to recordings made seven years ago, he says blushingly, "I don't see how I could have been so romantic then." Although Woodworth follows Professor Davison's precedent in presenting a majority of classical choral music, including a yearly rendition of Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he still has a weakness for modern American classics, ranging from Hindemith to "Casey Jones...
...Government of the State of New Jersey for the transportation involved. This might deeply encumber the State Treasury if, for instance, many children were sent to distant schools. But, qualitatively, are not all men equal in the eyes of our courts of justice, regardless of economic status or religious belief...
...Arcy's explanation of how he happened to get into his subject: "I took for granted when I was young that in love was to be found all that was most excellent, and as I had the good fortune to be brought up in the belief that a God, who was infinitely loving, existed, I had . . . the easiest and happiest way of approaching the subject. But soon problems began to multiply, fascinating problems which will occupy thinkers, as well as lovers, to the end of time...
Negative opposition to federal world government was based on the belief that world federalism was impossible during the present "toxic atmosphere of international suspicion" and the theory that forms of government must follow from social conditions...