Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pimples & Pustules. Acne, in both boys and girls, is universally associated with an upset hormone balance (male over female hormones) during puberty. (Eunuchs seldom or never have acne.) There is not a shred of evidence for the common belief that acne is a result of masturbation. For some unknown reason, the face, chest and upper back are especially susceptible. There the tiny sebaceous glands, which are designed to secrete fats to oil the skin, become clogged with an abnormally waxy form of these fats. Blackheads and pimples form over the shutdown pores; there may also be pustules, but infection...
...matter, the reader discovers a critic of remarkable integrity and perception. In most of the collection, moreover, the subject matter, the reader discovers a critic of remarkable integrity and perception. In most of the collection, moreover, the subject matter is entirely secondary. They stand as brilliantly executed articulation of belief, entirely independent of the precipitating subject...
...distinction between effectiveness and goodness follows from this belief. Effectiveness is a measurement of degree to which a book affects the readers, goodness is a measurement of the way in which it affects him. It is perfectly legistimate to contend that Norman Vincent Peale is a brilliant but pernicious author...
BRITISH POUND is rising in value, backing Washington's belief that Brit ish economy is climbing out of post-Suez slump. On New York market, pound sold last week briefly for more than $2.80 pegged rate for first time since June...
...writing. Yet sales of her poetry, in the U.S. (if not in Britain), are slender, and it is not hard to see why. Few readers want to be so sharply reminded of the fact that life on earth is transient, and fewer still can distill comfort from the belief that birth is the beginning of death and death a return to the universal source of all life...