Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pleasant Smoke. A sacred creed of most doctors-that smoking is bad for diseased hearts-was disputed by Dr. Robert L. Levy and a group of colleagues at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Levy's group found that patients with various heart diseases who smoked two cigarets in succession showed no harmful effects. Smoking raised their blood pressure and heart rate, but no more than their usual daily emotional experiences...
...Kracauer looks at German films for the answer to a hard historical question: Why did the Germans so readily accept Hitler? "Their strange preparedness for the Nazi creed," Dr. Kracauer has concluded, "must have originated in psychological dispositions stronger than any ideological scruples. The films of the pre-Hitler period shed no small light on the psychological situation...
Vive is Ithortel became my creed...
...relic of an older day and an older creed of senatorial seniority and personal privilege, Kenneth McKellar sat, bowed and disconsolate, as his colleagues voted 36-to-31 to confirm Gordon Clapp...
...statement continued, however, "The Committee hopes that there will henceforth be actual and continued equal treatment of all members of the community, regardless of race, creed or color...