Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth, or of the times, or just plain accident, is a matter of opinion. Without giving the "Critic" more cosmic importance than it would wish to have, this reviews is inclined to see in it a sign...
...Daniels made a reply which seemed to close the issue. He said that nowhere had he commented on controversial matters or quoted General Calles' violent anticlericalism or given approval to that Mexican's religious views. All he had done, explained the puzzled Ambassador, was to voice his faith in universal education, on which he believes the future of Mexico depends...
...Inspired by the inherent goodness of all men and convinced of their possession of certain inalienable natural rights, a theory long since discarded by political thinkers, he postulated a theory of social contract, historically null and logically full of gaping flaws, but yet inspiring in its fervent trust and faith in the basic goodness of all mankind. A visionary and idealist he was without a forerunner or a model. Above all he was a describer of beauty--a describer of the passions of the human heart and of the beauties of nature...
Thorough believers in British faith and honesty, the Coroner's jury promptly brought in a verdict that the ten victims had died from a Misadventure...
...last blow to the oil industry's faith in Federal regulation came last fortnight when Government prosecutors suddenly withdrew a test case which had been carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The reason given was a '"technicality": the clause in every other copy of the Oil Code which made a violation of a State production quota a violation of the Code-the clause on which the whole case hinged - was found to be missing from the original text signed by the President. New oil legislation will probably be presented to the next Congress...