Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...criterion for removing German industry has been altered to apply to those plants useful only for war, rather than to those which constitute war potential, as formerly. The ceiling of 11,500,000 tons remains on steel production, but limitation now depends on the good faith of the German manufacturers...
...American resolution on "Essentials of Peace." Among other things, its twelve points would pledge all U.N. members not to use force or the threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin...
...faith and determination were sufficient to get her through the long, Trans-Siberian Railway trip and to help her track down Mrs. Lawson in Yangcheng in northern China, hundreds of miles from the China coast where she had begun her search. There the two Englishwomen set up an inn for mule drivers. Gladys' first Chinese was a chant: "We have no bugs, we have no fleas. Good, good, good-come, come, come." Her job was to grab the leading mule of a caravan and lead him into the courtyard. After the mules were fed, their drivers became willing listeners...
...Closing Door," contains little humor, and what there is could easily be done away with. The dialogue doesn't seem very important, but serves the purposes of the plot well enough. The plot, by the way, concerns an unemployed man who has lost faith in himself and is hovering on the brink of insanity. His loving and loyal wife is trying to get him into an asylum for treatment when the play begins. The entire play covers only the next few hours...
...announcing the gift Dean David said, "We are indeed grateful for this evidence of faith in the role of the Business School in our society. In view of the increasing need for scholarship and loan funds, particularly after government aid expires, such a gift is especially gratifying...