Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes that belief in immortality can be freed from "popular or philosophic errors" and yet preserve "the wisdom of the Catholic doctrine of the soul, its moral and spiritual soundness, with the idea of Christ for its model...
...amazement, expecting to find these common men of the German Navy a beaten lot, I found arrogance and firm belief in Nazi doctrine. Peculiarly, Goring was referred to as "that bastard." In the midst of my enlightenment a Kraut C.P.O. stuck his neck through the watertight door intoning in guttural Low German the fear that I was a reporter-"Seid still!" Why do we continue to fail so miserably? (NAVY ENSIGN'S NAME WITHHELD) Philadelphia
...Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write novels...
...envious" address at the Student Council dinner, Dean Buck expressed his belief in the value and need for independence of undergraduate organizations. The rest of University Hall appears to share the provost's stand; in fact, Thomas Matters '43--some of you will remember him--who has been made a dean, will be primarily concerned with "guiding properly the revival of extra-curricular activities." Matters was president of the Student Council...
Mormonism's early growth in the revivalist, reformist 18303 stemmed not so much from its theology (a potpourri of American religious thought spiced with a characteristic 19th-century belief in the inevitability of progress) as from the personality of Smith. Divine revelation, his ultimate authority in all things, was an unanswerable instrument of power. He used it to create and maintain his theocratic dictatorship...