Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debating, therefore, virtuous or not, has its own rewards. Nevertheless, to a public moralizer like T. R., debating can be hypocritical. With its emphasis on sounding convincing despite personal belief, debating is the devil's tool. For, as often as not, the forces of good go down to defeat in college debate, if only because the opposition is better prepared, or more fluent, or manages, through chance, to have the last word...
...Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark, president of South Carolina's Citadel, whose Dixieland views now include a belief that racial integration harms the military? "I don't agree with him at all," replied Washington, D.C.-born McAuliffe. "The integration of the Negro in the armed forces has worked out very well...
...popular belief is that a war scare sends the stock market up. Last week the New York Stock Exchange proved the old saw false. Exactly the opposite is true. In a study of violent, day-to-day market fluctuations (2% or more change on the Dow-Jones Industrial average) from 1935 to 1955, the exchange reported that in 58 wide swings where war news was a factor 51 were downward. Of the seven advances (between September 1939 and June 1940), all were attributed to the hope that the U.S. would not get into the actual shooting, but that increased foreign...
Perhaps the more realistic reason is that the found would be very easily available--because of the belief of the Jewish community in quota limits.5Brandeis has been both praised for true nonsectarianism and criticized for hypocrisy after it constructed the already famous Three Chapels last year. The three, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant (from left) are designed to appear equal in size, even though the Jewish structure holds twice as many as either of the others...
...finds his own resolution of the problem of existence in a belief that life does have some ultimate purpose, even though this purpose may be undefinable. As Mr. Kellogg explains, he is "not concerned with creeds so much as people," the essence of religion being kindness and sympathy...