Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wishing to develop along special lines of practice will, declared the dean, provide a much larger group for whom opportunity must be provided. He expressed the belief that for these men the G.I. Bill of Rights would provide the solution. The responsibility itself will fall jointly upon the medical schools and hospitals...
...lasting peace have faced an almost impossible task. In desperation they have been driven to saying: '. . . Take this, bad as it is, and later make it what it should be.' Yet while they said it, they have known that . . . there is no basis whatever for belief that nations which in this hour of peril will not offer anything better in the form of world organization than this military alliance will change their policies in the future...
...This closely reasoned, lucid, lengthy (688-page) book is an effort to provide an answer. The work of a distinguished 68-year-old Harvard philosophy professor (whose Thought and Character of William James was a Pulitzer Prizewinner in 1935), it is a rigorous scrutiny of the foundations of American belief...
...young journalist with "a mission in life," desiring independence in expressing his beliefs while crusading for worthwhile causes, the small town newspaper offers the best opportunities in American today. That is the belief of Houston Waring, editor of the Littleton, Colorado, Independent, and one of the ten Nieman fellows currently studying here...
This report confirms a belief doctors have had ever since the discovery three years ago that pigeons (40% of them in some areas) and many other fowl (sometimes even ordinary hens) carry a virus similar to that of psittacosis, the much dreaded parrot disease. Both viruses produce a virus pneumonia, but the parrot virus is much more dangerous, usually killing about 18% of its victims. Both behave so much alike that medical men now refer to all bird-borne virus pneumonias as ornithosis, and call both viruses "members of the psittacosis group...