Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last general election, it was shown that the faith of the Filipino people in their cause of freedom is adamant, and no candidate dared to oppose the cause of independence. With the Washington Administration and Governor General Wood openly opposed to immediate independence, not only was there not a single candidate who dared the outcome with a stand against immediate, absolute and complete independence of our country, but on the contrary they all vied with each other in the vehemence of their adhesion to the sacred cause, giving assurance to the people that they would fight in defense...
...gratified that women for whose advancement I have always worked should recognize in me a friend and should want me to serve them in the Senate. It is a great happiness to me, and I feel it is a great honor that so many women have expressed faith in my friendship for them...
Young Bullock had a friend named Gye who had some money. Gye liked Bullock and pretty soon Gye died. Having " faith in Bullock, he left him a legacy on the condition that he take the name of Gye. So Bullock became Gye. He studied at Edinburgh University under Dr. Bennett, a cancer expert. Then he began research. "For the last two years he hasn't had a holiday-Sundays, Christmas or any other...
...them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen Dayton as their battleground and in whose wake has come the usual camp-following of freaks, fakes, mountebanks and parasites of publicity...
...first point, the verbal struggle was keen. Dr. G. A. Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith. Dr. Meigs of Illinois, on behalf of the Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...