Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith in the fundamental goodness of human nature is destroyed by the bestial persecutions of the Nazi regime, then it is restored again by the spontaneous upsurge of sympathy for the persecuted in other parts of the world. Harvard has been a part of this humanitarian wave, and here the sympathy seeks to express itself not only in protests but in active efforts to alleviate the conditions of the sufferers...
...Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
...many untried social reforms, but must be solved by hard work, by intelligent citizenship, by widespread public education, by constant vigilance, by rejection of old prejudices and outworn ideas and by a determination on the part of all the people to preserve their individual liberties so that their faith in democracy will be justified...
...whole of civilized humanity is in a deep crisis," Dean Matthews said, and "we need the strength which comes from faith in the eternal...
Speaking in a soft, expressive voice, and gesticulating freely but not dramatically, small, white-haired Dean Matthews went on to explain away rationalism. Predicating his remarks with a defense of free thought, he declared that even the rationalist, who would place all faith on his own reason, was subject to the laws of probability, for human reason may not lead to truth,--may be based on false hypotheses. Moreover, some attitude must be taken toward life, for we must live; and of the several alternatives religious faith is by far the most satisfying...