Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infringement of belief and opinion tends to erode the healthy diversity that is the basis of a free community; once a loyalty test is accepted, succeeding infringements are surrendered to more docilely and imposed more readily. By its continued resistance to loyalty oaths, the University must protect and foster the multanimity that maintains the vigor of a free society...
...think it is caused by motion of the liquid metal core of the earth's interior. The University of Chicago's Astronomer Gerard Kuiper reasons that if the moon has no magnetic field, it cannot have a liquid core. The Russian observation, he says, backs up his belief that the moon was formed at the same time as the earth, but since it is much smaller, its metal core has cooled off and solidified. Other moon experts are not so sure. Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey of the University of California points out that the moon may have...
First, the affidavit is excessively vague and its prohibitions could be interpreted by over-zealous federal officials as applying to activities they considered politically objectionable. It is not unimaginable to conceive of Southern officials deciding that to criticize segregation showed belief in the Communist conspiracy...
...cannot afford a private education. Despite the preaching of Seymour Harris, it is doubtful whether 20year payment plans, interest-free loans, or other similar proposals will enable all persons to enter private schools. State colleges must expand to fill the gap. President Mather's latest report well illustrates this belief...
...have surrendered the belief in heaven and in the resurrection of the dead--but nevertheless, no concern is to the non-believer more vital, urgent, and intimate than that with vitam venturi saeculi--the life of the world to come