Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same problem two years ago in selecting a president. She was forced to choose between several of her own alumni, and the graduate of another university, who was better fitted for the task. Contrary to tradition the outsider was chosen, and since then he has more than justified the faith placed in him. He has shown the value of the principle that new blood gives vitality to state or to college...
...handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South America with her new husband. But she didn't. The novel ends where, an employee in a sweatshop, she looks on from the street at Laurel's successful debut in New York Society...
...Derby, most important race in America. The previous week Zev went to the post a heavy favorite in the Preakness and faltered badly, losing to Walter J. Salmon's Vigil. His reversal of form at the Derby vindicated his backers and, incidentally, paid those who still retained their faith in him $40.40 for a $2 ticket. Over 75,000 saw the race on the historic Churchill Downs. Zev's owner, H. F. Sinclair, collected $53,625 as the stake of victory...
...Fundamentalists. In 1643 was written the Westminster Confession, the constitution of Presbyterian faith. It substituted the authority of the Bible for the authority of the Roman Pope, and it held that the Bible is " the only infallible rule of faith and practice." But who shall decide what the Bible means? One group today insists on a literal interpretation. They are Fundamentalists. They claim that not one jot or one tittle of the Word of God can be wrong. And they seek to oust Liberal preachers who interpret the scriptures in the light of modern thought...
...Montreal newspaper publisher (TIME, April 7), is attracting world-wide attention. Since the offer was made public, January 2, 1922, in a letter to Sir Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths...