Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women who Sacrifice their lives for a religious faith are known to their fellow adherents as martyrs, to opposing sects as fanatics. The latter term was the one used in newspaper despatches to define 25 Wahhabis who were shot by Egyptian soldiers last week in the streets of Mecca...
...children who, having observed their elders' repeated failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces in idealistic undertakings, has persisted. It is manifest today...
...work as President has been broken. I had favored American aid toward bringing about a settlement in face of the opposition of public opinion in my country, and I prevented the question from being presented to the League, having faith in the United States...
...purpose of these Eucharistic Congresses is to give Catholics opportunity to proclaim their faith in public demonstration, to show openly their devotion to the Holy Eucharist (TIME, June 7). Not only do these meetings stir the hearts of Catholics, call them closer to their religion but they are also a means of international amity, emphasizing as they do the superiority of Catholicism to natural boundaries. Another fruit they bear is the strengthening of faith of the wavering. Mass, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mystery, Sacrifice, Love Feast-the Eucharist has many appellations according to its different aspects...
...done and said many astonishing things. But seldom has he done or said anything more astonishing than when he proclaims to the world his willingness to rest the salvation of his soul upon the ethics of big business. And seldom has there been a more revealing confession of faith than this naive acknowledgement that whatever is right, and that the President of the United States is content to accept as his own faith and the faith of the American people the spiritual implications of modern industrialism...