Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleague" at the Institute of Pacific Relations. They saw each other at international conferences, he explained-that sort of thing. It had been five or six years, he thought, since he had seen him last. As to whether Lattimore was a Communist, "to the best of my knowledge and belief, he was not," said Field. Next day Tydings moved to cite Browder and Field for contempt. Apart from the relevance of questions or constitutional guarantees against selfincrimination, the conduct of these witnesses, Tydings declared, "has 'been an affront to the dignity of the Senate...
...tendency in the West to define our enemy as Russian rather than Communist expansion stems from a widely held belief that the world proletarian movement is merely a continuation of the "traditional, historical imperialism of greater Russia," Kerensky said, quoting a statement by General Walter B. Smith, former U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R...
...early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
This policy, which is the basis of the University's guarantee of academic freedom for its Faculty, is rooted in the belief that it is administratively easier to leave people unregulated than to try to regulate, and by regulating assume responsibility for all their activities. Thus there is no attempt at Harvard to restrict the utterances and affiliations of Faculty members. If anyone complains to the University about the activities of a Faculty member, the University simply points out that it is not supervising the Faculty and hence any complaints must be taken directly to the Faculty member in question...
...determine whether a given consequence is desirable or undesirable? And who is to determine whether a given act brings credit or discredit to the University? Should public opinion be allowed to affect the University's relations with its extra-curricular activities? Implicit in the proposed rules is the belief that this determination should be made by the Dean's Office, with the advice of the Student Council. This is certainly a far cry from the traditional College attitude towards extra-curricular activities. Not only is the new approach administratively far more complicated than the old, but it also subverts...