Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first issue is grades. The 148 staff does not want to give them. They feel that grades can damage the educational value of a course, and give three reasons for their belief...
This soldier would never have questioned the belief that each Israeli should sense strongly and personally the delicate equilibrium that characterizes life in Israel. Yet he also sincerely felt that his mother should not be required to suffer. He preferred that she be ignorant of the dangers her son faced...
...challenge to the belief that the fears and hopes must be omnipresent can come only in unanswered questions. The current situation in the Middle East allows little room for experimentation. The sense of security cannot be risked...
...still undocumented belief of some staffers that a few Harvard courses in the past have had undergraduates teaching sections...
...superstitions created by "rational" technology itself. Hardly anyone is more superstitious these days than the supposedly no-nonsense men who fly huge jetliners at multimile altitudes. Aviators frequently cross unused seat belts prior to takeoff, or spit on a wheel after their preflight inspection-thus indulging the old belief that saliva is an offering of the spirit to the gods. Some auto racers don't like peanuts or women in their pits. In keeping with the belief that new machines cause sterility, U.S. servicemen blithely took sexual advantage of British girl radar operators in World War II. A similar...