Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a general belief among folk whose faith is frail and timid, that a study of actual phenomena, a demand for evidence to support the hypothesis, precludes a belief in immortality. Such folk were surprised last week when Dr. William Darrach, dean of the faculty of medicine, speaking at Columbia University's annual commemoration service, said...
...have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built up between us. ... The palm may pass from us in the future. . . . But our task is in the present. Let us meet it together." After her lecture, Preacher Royden, like every other famed British visitor, was asked what she thought of prohibition. Said...
President Coolidge learned of the stock market uneasiness and promptly expressed his belief that the brokers' loans constituted no real danger to the country's credit situation. Next day the market steadied itself and continued steady on following days. Average prices rose...
Documentary evidence of the complete success of the Reading Period experiment at Harvard was secured yesterday through the unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...
There are no headstones in the Graveyard of the Sea. Somewhere along this sullen stretch off Sable Island Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson's airplane Dawn lies, according to belief, buried beside the wrecks of sailing ships. The Dawn might have floated for a little before sinking. Seeking a floating speck, the great dirigible Los Angeles roamed the air above this unmarked waste...