Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close scrutiny of Russian literature reveals an innate comprehension of the Christian faith, a strong religious tendency and an earnest seeking after the solution of the human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
...Approved a rent-control amendment sponsored by New Jersey's Albert Hawkes (and backed by the real-estate lobby) to allow landlords and tenants "voluntarily and in good faith" to agree on a lease calling for 15% rent increase, provided it extended to or beyond Dec. 31, 1948. Democrats objected bitterly that tenants would have to sign or face even higher demands and possible eviction early next year when all controls are scheduled to expire...
...after Batista? During his dramatic 127 days' presidency in the 1933 revolution, many of Cuba's most progressive laws were enacted. On taking office again in 1944, Grau said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." To show his good faith, he publicly declared the extent of his fortune ($231,512 in cash and securities, plus real estate). But graft did not stop-for in Cuba no one man can stop...
...might they wail, for the instances of greed, ignorance, needless poverty, waste, hunger, violence, falsehood, hypocrisy, and half-truth are so plentiful that merely to enumerate them would be a Sisyphean labor. But the black gulf of pessimism is not the place to seek the understanding, the patience, the faith that is required by a generation that hopes to bequeathe a world at least somewhat better than one to inherited. Things as they are appear much less disheartening if viewed together with what might have been, and what still may be realized in the future, than if viewed alone...
...Alan Herbert) get together at the celebrated Punch Round Table, for luncheon, brandy and a discussion of the week's main political cartoon. Editor Knox, who has been working for Punch for 40 years and writes the pieces signed "EVOE," puts the rest of the issue out on faith. He holds no story conferences, never knows what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited" file from readers all over the Empire. Knox does not worry about one important part of Punch: the cover has been the same since...