Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...referring to recent Egyptian riots over the administration of Gaza, Crum expressed his belief that "Nasser is trying his luck farther than I think it will...
...beyond these requirements, it was Hollis' "mind and will . . . that not less than one third part of the number of Students.....be of that Belief or Persuasion called Baptist, both now hereafter and alwaies." The Scholarship Committee has taken the "not less than one third part" to mean that a least four of the winners must be Baptists...
...vanished again into the winter dark. The sparrow's stay, the thegn intoned, was like human life, brief and soon ended. King Edwin, says the Venerable Bede, was impressed and converted. Other historical evidence suggests more crassly that Edwin was converted by his Christian wife, and by the belief that the new faith would be politically advantageous. In any case, the story of the sparrow suggests that Anglo-Saxon palaces must have admitted a good deal of weather along with the birds...
...Western eyes accustomed to classic Greek sculpture, which took as its ideal the figure of the perfect athlete or full-proportioned woman, it is immediately apparent that the goal for Indian sculpture was something quite different. The answer lies in the Indian belief that the aim of life is moksa, release from physical surroundings, and that art should contribute to that goal. Indian artists took their clue from the discipline of yoga, made their ideal the image of a mystical, purifying lightness signifying release from physical bondage, which they called the "subtle body," and believed to be the very form...
Farnsworth expressed his belief that a "program of preventive medicine and health education, the saving of time to the individual in the case of minor illness, and the spreading of the costs of major and catastrophic illnesses will add immeasurably to the attractiveness and satisfaction of working for Harvard...