Word: creed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand co-operation from the Congress without returning any on behalf of the Government. ... I can read in no other way your peremptory refusal to discuss the ordinances. . . . The Congress must resist with its prescribed creed of non-violence such measures of legalized terrorism as have been imposed in various provinces...
...well-established maxim that the world withholds full approval of its prophets and guides, so long as they are still living. In the contemporary world, Mahatma Gandhi appears to be a striking exception to this rule. His political creed and conduct are too well-known to need rehearsing, but the effect they have produced justifies special emphasis. The whole-hearted support which he enjoys in India is impressive in itself, but the reception which he, although its avowed enemy, received as a visitor to England, seems like an even more remarkable instance of the triumph of a moral ideal...
...Life. Playboy, philosopher, publisher, poseur, he founded the Roycrofters in 1895 from an idea he picked up at William Morris' hand-made-book works in England. When he returned to the U. S. he was downcast by the shoddy vulgarity of the 1890's, developed his own creed of beauty & culture. Everyone, he believed, wanted to create something beautiful and useful with his hands. The Roycroft Shops gave anyone who went to East Aurora material with which to work...
...prevalent tendency to place the critical college paper either in the nursery or among the dangerous intellectuals requires from time to time a restatement of the creed of the liberal journal in the college...
...surpassing beauty or a monument to a great faith built by loving hands, but, more than that, he found a spirit, a spirit, of unity, of precision, of order. These were beliefs that dominated the Middle Ages, and upon which a whole civilization was erected. It was a creed that men lived by, and for which men died...