Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain one's faith, one must ascribe this bitter attack to a survival of ancient Anglo-French animosity...
There are now nearly 400,000 Christians in China, said he; but the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy has added to the difficulties of presenting to the remaining 400,000,000 the Christian faith in its essential simplicity...
...Hoover: "In Chicago, addressing the Izaak Walton League, I said there are too few fishermen in public life. 'A fisherman,' said I, must be of contemplative mind. . . No one can catch fish in excitement, in anger or in malice. He [the fisherman] is by nature possessed of faith, hope and even optimism...
...annually outspoken note, the Japanese Ambassador denied the charges that Japan had violated the "Agreement" and declared that Section 12 (b), providing for exclusion, "would not only seriously offend the just pride of a friendly nation. . .but would also seem to involve the question of the good faith, and threfore the honor of their government. . .I have stated all this in a most friendly spirit, for I realize the grave consequences which the enactment of the measure would inevitably bring upon the otherwise happy and beneficial relations between our two countries...
...Blackshirts, you can have faith in me as the inflexible, severe, implacable defender of our revolution. I say to you, defend what you have already helped me to achieve by participation now, even if shedding your blood is necessary. We will begin again toward a second victory...