Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand, the lawyer for Delaware declared that Congress never intended that the Amendment should affect public school segregation, asserting that the use of the Amendment to abolish segregation in schools would be to give it a meaning "directly contrary to that given by its framers." As support for this belief, he pointed out that a majority of the congressmen in 1868, when the Amendment was passed, were from states that favored segregation and they would never have agreed to submit the Amendment if they had believed it would invalidate segregation...
...each with equally good libraries and faculty. The only difference is that one is for Negroes, the other for whites. The courts of the Southern states claim this is all that is meant by equality and their attitude toward the sphere of the Fourteenth Amendment follows naturally from this belief...
...belief that a person who lives in Dunster House should be willing to pay the dues. A person who is willing to use the facilities made available by the money which other members of the House contribute should be willing to contribute himself...
...amusing to find Anglicans so disturbed by the "doctrinal errors" of the Roman Catholic Church, when Anglicanism tolerates in its fold every form of belief and disbelief from Papalism to Marxism, not only among lay folk but even among prominent clergymen . . . Perhaps Canterbury feels he would have no more success than when . . . he explained away his inability to displace the notorious "Red Dean" of his own Cathedral Church...
...danger is that companies may wait too long. If sales fall off and they cut prices as a last resort, the drop is liable to scare off, rather than lure in the consumer. When prices are falling, he is apt to keep his money in his pocket, in the belief that goods will get still cheaper. On the other hand, if businessmen cut prices at a time when sales are good, they will persuade reluctant consumers to spend. It is one of the best ways to prevent the recession that so many businessmen are worried about...