Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, TIME shares with such authorities as Lincoln Biographer Carl Sandburg the almost universal belief that Honest Abe coined the phrase...
Americans have long been comforted and invigorated by a belief that seemed as solid as the Rockies and as ever-renewable as the Mississippi: that, counting up its armor, its resources and its allies, the U.S. was as strong as any potential enemy...
...only salvation within a mass society which makes such a type of government inevitable, Bishop Neill said, is a belief in the Christian doctrine which holds that "individuals are important, men do matter...
...ideas and influence have permeated other parties everywhere, including the U.S. and Canada. The conservatives and liberals of Britain, Australia and New Zealand, the Christian democrats of Europe, the new nationalist leaders in India and Southeast Asia have generally accepted the ideal of the social welfare state and a belief in some degree of nationalization for key industries...
...stated his belief that their is "an ever-increasing demand for advanced education on the part of citizens of a democracy in a technological civilization (and) many educators feel that a rapid expansion of two-year local terminal colleges in the answer..." He argued, however that the expensive development of a staff and plant for such a college at Harvard would not be worth the effort for the contribution it could make to American education. Harvard's task, he said, is simply "to train teachers and administrators for these institutions...