Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also affirmed that Lamont marked a return to the belief that education is based on unrestricted access to all that humanity has thought and experienced...
Slichter stated that "the prospects are good, though not perhaps too bright, that by 1960 private enterprise will have demonstrated that it can increase the number of jobs at a satisfactory rate." Optimistically, he asserted his belief "that the economy will avoid severe recessions from...
...Party in 1904. At 29, he was a Washington correspondent, served United Press, International News Service and Federated Press in turn. He joined Tass in 1923 as a stringer, became a full-time Tassman in 1933. Todd insists he is not a Communist Party member, but makes clear his belief that Russia can do no wrong...
According to a letter printed for the first time in the current Atlantic Monthly, Bicycle Shop Proprietor Wilbur Wright wrote to his father (on Sept. 3, 1900) that he was going to a place called Kitty Hawk, N.C., to try a little experiment: "It is my belief that flight is possible and . . . I think there is a slight possibility of achieving fame and fortune from...
...those who believe in God, 75% are full of religious doubts and uncertainties. Religion for most youth, Ross suggested, is not a "directing, compelling force in life." More than 80% of those questioned, Ross said, could properly be called "believers in God." But the truth was that their "belief" was merely "a passive acceptance of a fact presumably established in our culture...