Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...
...conference for the study of sacred prophecy, at Stony Brook, N. Y., last week, illuminated the fact, recently obscured by quarrels between fundamentalists and modernists of the various Christian denominations, that a great and growing strata of Christians now believe literally in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. Such belief is the "medicine" of religious charlatans, the persuader of profit-taking evangelists, and the consoler of the regular clergy. Where there is social misery, the religious are apt to keep patient, in hopes of the prophetic millenium. (The non-religious are apt to be impatient, in hopes of what they...
...belief that even if the U. S. chooses to remain weak in naval strength, Great Britain will not take advantage of this chance...
...week virtually without food, having begun a hunger strike which, in Mr. Sacco's case, was still continuing at last reports. Hunger eventually conquered Mr. Vanzetti's starvation program. During the first two days of their abstention from food, Prison Warden William Hendry inclined toward the belief that only the hot weather and lack of exercise were responsible for the prisoners' fasting. By the third day, however, this hypothesis became rather untenable, and discussion turned to the possibility of sending the prisoners to the prison hospital and there forcibly feeding them. It was recalled that...
...week played its part towards restricting the overproduction of crude oil (TIME, July 18) by issuing a temporary order forbidding the drilling in of new oil wells or the shooting* of old ones in certain districts of the state. The peg for the order was the commission's belief that it was empowered to conserve the state's natural resources. Gypsy Oil Co.† considered that peg too frail; protested at once that the order was unconstitutional because it deprived the company of enjoying the fruits of oil production, because it was discriminatory, because it took property without...