Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German bombers were already being prepared in the Reich for quick takeoffs (see p. 15). Digging through Professor Haldane's 296 pages to learn what Science thought would be their fate and what Science advised could be done about it, Britons found crumbs of comfort only in the belief of Professor Haldane that no new and unprecedented weapons such as "death rays'' or "germ bombs" are likely at present to be held in reserve by any country for widespread...
...historymaking" inaugural address at Princeton last year: "The new crusading religions (Fascism, Naziism, Communism) . . . are schooled in massive thought systems, which make the average Christians who come up against them feel like infants. . . . The churches must return to theology and begin to agonize about the formulation of belief, or they will perish...
When we feel doubts as to the essential goodness and superiority of government by the people, we can revitalize our faith by turning to Thomas Mann, outcast of fascism, prophet of democracy, who has come to its home to preach his holy belief in the latter. In deep, organic tones, he voices his faith in the inevitability of democracy. So long as man believes in his own dignity and in a sense of justice, democracy is necessary. Trite and hackneyed phrases these, but such things assume a new meaning by their very absence...
Tree surgeons raised many of the fallen elms, and expressed the belief that they might live, although some of the roots have been badly broken. They will be stayed up with wires for the next few years until they can reestablish themselves...
Author Stone makes much of the contradictions in London's career-his belief in socialism and his desire for wealth, his belief in sexual freedom and his desire for a quiet home life, his enormous good nature and his periods of despondency. Author Stone also tries to trace London's talent to his father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate...