Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other international languages have had equally ill-fated experiences. But this has not deterred the belief that a successful one of universal value would someday be found. The latest and most serious attempt is now underway with a language called Interlingua. For the past three years Science Service, the Institution for the Popularization of Science, has been conducting an intensive publicity campaign to popularize this comparatively new tongue. Under the energetic direction of Alexander Gode, the Service's efforts have been notably successful...
Furthermore, there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. That for whites is, with a little more ineptitude, similar to the standard of justice in Massachusetts. That for Negroes is strikingly different, and is apparently predicated on the belief that "Negroes are like that." Crimes among Negroes are terribly wide-spread in West Point, but the police and the newspaper alike ignore them unless the wrong doing becomes habitual. If Negro violations were treated with the same strictness as white, the country jail would have to be tripled in size...
Although not an "I-Like-Ike" club, the group will operate with the belief that Eisenhower is the best man for the Presidency at the present and will seek to determine whether or not students feel he should run again in 1956. Its faculty advisers are Bruce C. Hopper, associate professor of Government, and Robert Braucher, professor...
...Germany. Already Molotov's admission had forced a new line in East Germany itself: free elections is a dirty term; after all, free elections had not prevented the emergence of Hitler. Wrote the party organ Neues Deutschland: "The lessons taught the German people as a result of their belief in the fairy tale of free elections under an imperialistic power are so bitter that anyone who forgets them for one single moment becomes a traitor to his country...
Strange things happen in the first act of Thernton Wilder's new comedy. Wealthy Yonkers merchant Horace Vandergelder, despite his belief that "99 percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us we in great danger of contigioa," decides to rejoin the fools and get married again. Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, two conscientious clerks in Vandergelder's store, imperiously decide to close the place up and head for New York City, where, for the first time in their lives, they may perhaps get to kiss a girl. And Mrs. Levi, the widowed "matchmaker" whom...