Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Jews, Catholics, Protestants," or what not, wear our faith deep within us, a fundamental principle of Christian conduct and attitude, or is it merely a chip on our shoulders, to be knocked ignominiously into a cocked hat by a little chance phrase...
...United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their right to ''just compensation." Said Justice Cardozo, "The power to control and manage properly the property and affairs of the Indians in good faith for their betterment and welfare does not extend so far as to enable the Government to give tribal lands to others...
During the year past, Presbyterian pacifists worked to get two-thirds of the Church's 276 presbyteries to vote to delete from its Confession of Faith the following: "Christians may lawfully under the New Testament, wage war." Last week they learned that the repealer had failed of adoption by nine votes...
What, after viewing the results of these endeavors, astounded those who knew the picture's history was not Mr. Goldwyn's superior foresight but the fact that anybody should be moved either to violent objection to the material in hand or to stubborn faith in it. Woman Chases Man is a haywire story made in the mold of the current vogue for haywire stories. After wavering on the fringes of light comedy for a little while, it sheds its inhibitions and goes whole hog into farce...
...Faith in the extreme short stroke as rowed by the Washington crews, which has been increasing each time there has been regatta on the Charles, got a slight blow in the big race of the day, as both the Elis and Princeton led Cornell's effortless-looking eight across the finish line...