Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kenmure, Scotland's first female minister. She was resigning her post, preaching her farewell sermon. While women in the congregation sniffled and sobbed their regrets, Preacher Kenmure explained: "I am glad the decision of the church has been to ask me to continue the ministry, thereby showing your faith in the ministry of women. But I am still aware of opposition and hostility which makes honest cooperation impossible...
Coach Fesler will put his faith in a starting lineup in which there are no seniors. Jim Grady and Dick Ernst will take the offensive positions in the fore court while Gene Merry and Captain Joe Ferriter will be on the reserve list, awaiting the call to perform in their last game for the Crimson. Dick Boys will resume his place at the pivot position while Dick Fletcher and Dan Comfort will play in the rear court...
...take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true to the cause of justice and the aviation companies. If a wicked and paternalistic government is going to interfere in a business which has been going along very nicely and in which the promoters have been content with...
...expectations. But the golden vistas held out by the Nazis that now hang in front of the German people with shimmering magnificence will certainly be dissipated by the passage of time and the necessary and inevitable failure of Hitler to make them into realities. I think that once faith in the success and truthfulness of the Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence to show that censorship is successful merely because it is thoroughly repressive. The Russia of Alexander III was certainly...
...English is taken up by examples: newspaper stories, radio talks, scenarios, business letters, "translations" into Basic English of scientific lectures, political and economic papers, Bible passages, a scene from Robinson Crusoe. Translation into Basic English sometimes results in a stilted foreignness. President Roosevelt's "You people must have faith; you must not be stampeded by rumors or guesses" is rendered "It is necessary for you to have belief in us. Do not put off your balance by false stories and chance ideas." Sometimes the result is classic simplicity, as in this example from a speech of Mussolini...