Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then up to deliver the most solemn speech of his presidential career rose 43-year-old James Bryant Conant. "Such a gathering as this," he began, peering anxiously at the sky, "could come together only to commemorate an act of faith. . . . We commemorate today the daring hope of a group of determined men-a hope the fulfillment of which was long delayed; delayed, indeed, until the lifetime of many now present here this morning. . . . But the real past which we salute is but yesterday. ... It is toward the future of our common enterprise that on this occasion we must direct...
...years of supporting Democratic Presidential candidates has been unable to stomach only William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1908, did not go so far as Pundit Lippmann. Never more vigorously oldline Democratic than in its indictment of the Roosevelt ventures toward planned economy and its confession of faith in low tariff, State rights, "economic liberalism," the Sun forlornly concluded...
Such a gathering as this could come together only to commemorate, an act of faith. This assembly honors a vision three centuries old and in so doing reaffirms an intent of perpetuating an ideal. A hundred years ago President Quincy, writing of the founding of Harvard, used these words: "On recurring to the origin of this seminary, our first feelings impel us to wonder and admire." From such admiration grow the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary; with no less reverential feeling the sons of Harvard have once again met here to mark the turn of another century...
...commemorate today the daring hope of a group of determined men--a hope the fulfillment of which was long delayed; delayed, indeed, until within the lifetime of many now present here this morning. With feelings of gratitude we turn back through three centuries to pay homage to the faith that could see no obstacles and to ideals which are indeed eternal. But the real past which we salute is but yesterday. Harvard, together with all the other universities in this country, stands just beyond the threshold of a new understanding. It is towards the future of our common enterprise that...
...yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal's cherished Resettlement Administration of photographic fakery and bad faith...