Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance. In this cross section of intelligentsian opinion you may observe two common tendencies (perhaps different aspects of the same thing): disbelief in personal immortality, a growing preoccu- pation with practical problems...
Twice the Rineharts have lived in a haunted house. Stoutly asserting a disbelief in ghosts, Mrs. Rinehart gives unvarnished but spooky facts about bells ringing, furniture moving, queer sounds, queer sights...
...emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme from the realism so popular a few seasons age. "Green Pastures", "Berkley Square", and the New York cast of "Michael and Mary," are instances of this, she declared. Glamour, "the willing suspension of disbelief", the successful effort to make people laugh understandingly, are the missions of the modern theatre...
...causes and cures for the common cold physicians are skeptical. However, they believed Dr. Pfeiffer because of the wide range and thoroughness of his re-search in bacteriology, St. Vitus' Dance, pernicious anemia. . . . He, on the other hand, wanted to quiet all disbelief. He sent his research to Johns Hopkins University, where seven years ago he himself lectured on pathology, and which is now conducting a wide, deep, determined search into the cause of colds...
...comes the voice of a reader protesting against these results, not on the grounds of the right of a student paper to conduct such investigations, but on the basis of the validity of the method. And the Daily Iowan, publication of the University of Iowa student body, frankly confesses disbelief...