Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of its details (as now stated by the AEC), when Oppenheimer was appointed to head the Los Alamos atomic laboratory in early 1943. There is no question of pro-Communist sympathy on the part of Lieut. General Leslie Groves, who appointed him and who last week reaffirmed his belief in Oppenheimer's loyalty...
...College Board is in a very real sense the father of the seven year old ETS, It was the CEEB, which in 1947 turned over all of its assets in excess of $300,000 to the ETS "in the belief and confidence" that it "would make good tests against which those of other...
...private schools are something of a national necessity, said U.S. Education Commissioner Samuel M. Brownell last week: "It is sometimes said that [the private schools] are undemocratic and unAmerican. The fact is, however, that . . . by their historic contributions to our tradition of freedom of belief and freedom to teach . . . they exemplify a democratic freedom . . . Cultivation of a habitual awareness of God and . . . teaching the history and bases of religion are inalienable rights which the non-public schools may exercise in their attempts to make God-centered rather than self-centered youth." Indeed, concluded Brownell, the greatness of American education...
...test Harvard's administration in the hope of ending the University's resistance to the national program. Continuation of the anti-television policy could be interpreted as an indication of Harvard's dissatisfaction with the NCAA, its desire to determine policy independently of a large body, and its belief that the Association television rulings may be against anti-trust laws...
...great religions, whatever their differences, acknowledge a belief in God as the father and creator of mankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command. Others may be moved to brotherhood only by sentiment. We acknowledge brotherhood as a religious duty...