Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late unhappy Stefan Zweig shared with most of us who have lived there the belief that Brazil is indeed a "pais do futuro" (land of the future). [He] attributed the lack of race distinction to the organized planning of the early followers of Loyola in the 16th Century. Led by Manoel de Nobrega in 1549, the first six Jesuits in Brazil began to plan the "new state" . . . anticipating the moral equality of all members of the human family. Through miscegenation and education, No brega and those who followed him hoped to create a new nation, if not a new race...
...With these words ex-Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts last week fanned smoldering embers of discord in his church. The Christian Register, official publication of the American Unitarian Association, had bubbled with controversy over whether the insistently creedless Unitarians should at least bind themselves to a belief in God. But at the 124th annual meeting of the association, in Boston last week, the delegates voted to keep the argument off the floor, at least until next year...
...from speaking--in spite of-the fact that men in these categories are still innocent in the eyes of the law. Furthermore, men actually convicted in the civil rights cases mentioned in the survey should not be considered criminal influences, since their convictions rest on personal principle, on the belief that it is their own rights that have been violated, and since their offense was contempt of a congressional committee which is in itself not a court of law. The same standards that apply to speakers under judicial consideration should apply to teachers...
...Harvard Teachers Union is opposed to any procedure which would deny students financial aid on the basis of their political beliefs and affiliations, and affirms its belief that scholarship holders should be selected on the basis of their scholarly competence and promise...
...observer in Florida told the CRIMSON, "My belief is that legislators were forced into it, and nothing serious will result. No persecution, in other words...