Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some examples of the most highly organized horror of all time-a series of concentration camps for political prisoners from most of the nations the Nazis had conquered, including the German nation. For 12 years the enemies of totalitarianism had told the world of these horrors. They were past belief. But the evidence of the camps at Buchenwald, Belsen, Erla and Nordhausen was as irrefutable as death, as monstrous as human degradation. From three camps, TIME & LIFE correspondents described these horrors...
...radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...
...Chicago and Manhattan), and spoke at a testimonial meeting for New York's Congressman Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and delegate to the conference. His two most frequent phrases of the week: "Sorry, no comment on that," and "Nothing has happened to shake my belief that...
...government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom. Nevertheless, it is the peculiar task of Harvard and every other university and college in this country to foster and maintain not only freedom within its own walls, but also tolerance, self-restraint, main dealing, and devotion to the truth throughout America...
...simply putting in the wrong nutshell the Reverend Dodgson's own anxiety about the dangers of everyday life. Son of a stern archdeacon, eldest of eleven children, only two of whom married and nine of whom were girls, young Charles seems never to have got over the belief that there was "something ugly and even cruel in masculinity." And "masculinity after all," remarks Author Lennon precisely, "is half...