Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which last December voted to restrict tutorial to honors candidates and Sophomores of Group IV and above was that this action would in effect strengthen the system. Recognizing the drain and strain placed upon the Faculty by the war, the overwhelming majority of students accepted this decision in good faith...
...Green Years (MGM) is one of those genteel and interminable stories of "character," "conflict" and "faith" which invariably impress lower-middle-brows as "big," "heartwarming" and, above all, "human...
Robert, growing older, also has trouble because of his faith. It is shaken when sickness prevents his winning the scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with...
...long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...
...traffic of the world. But we had to go: and perhaps one of the questions you had taught us to ask we secretly wanted to ask you, the very fountainhead. You had told us that to understand knowledge would show us The Way more certainly than a flash of faith: but wasn't it faith that drew us to you? Your science had justified to us the conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow men were our brothers and equals: but had you showed us how to love the man who still remained unconvinced...