Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid Ground. "Man needs faith," said Ortega, "he needs belief as a soil and a solid ground where he may stretch his limibs and rest." Man is constantly getting lost, he conceded, but being lost is actually a "dramatic privilege" and not an evil. When lost, the man who has faith turns himself into an instrument of orientation "to guide him and to return him to himself ... If man had not been lost, countless times, on land and sea, the points of the compass would never have been developed...
...people themselves created this situation by paying these so-called stinkers. But Mr. Miller's belief that all dealers are alike borders on the ridiculous. Unfortunately, the innocent have to suffer with the guilty...
...accomplish this, Conant said, "first of all the citizen must become a real enthusiast about our great democratic experiment; he must be eager to forward those ideals which are the premises of the experiment itself. Secondly, he must work at the task of making his belief manifest almost daily in the course of his regular life...
...CRIMSON believed that the Commission was laboring under a misapprehension. This belief was corroborated in a paragraph by Frank Ober from his exchange of letters with Grenville Clark, covered elsewhere in this issue. Said Mr. Ober...
...municipal Supreme Bench, which prohibited newspapers-and radio stations-from reporting a suspect's confession or past criminal record until they were introduced in court. The judges had put the British-style gag on the press in 1939, after a sensational murder case, in the belief that newspaper stories might deprive a defendant of an impartial trial...