Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testing whole masses of students, has it sacrificed the individual to a bunch of IBM machines? That, says President Chauncey, is something the colleges and graduate schools must remedy themselves. "It is," says he, "interesting that when colleges first use our tests, almost without exception, they place too much faith in them. We emphatically discourage such dependence. There is no more a right way or wrong way for all colleges to choose their students than there is for all men to choose their wives...
...Visser 't Hooft said: "The World Council lives its own life in complete independence from any particular political system or economic system or ideology." To people who believe that the conflict between Communism and Christianity is not merely political, economic or ideological, but a crucial matter of faith, some of the proceedings in Hungary must have sounded puzzling and perhaps alarming...
...picture, as in the novel, the dramatic scalpel does not cut very deep. But there are vivid clinical scenes in hospital ward and peasant hovel, touching sequences of the young doctor's struggles with Auvergne's backward farmers, who prefer faith healers to doctors...
...imperfect nature of man to suppose that the world's happiness is just around the corner. He can hardly be called an optimist, and he suffers from the built-in defect of all who distrust specific programs-he has none of his own to propose. But he has faith in the accumulated wisdom of the past, in the ultimate integrity of the individual, in a relationship between God and man that will give life a meaning it cannot otherwise have...
...This Relief ... In Thousand Oaks, Calif., ailing E. E. Brossard, 71, agreed to submit to a rubdown from two professed faith healers who promised it would make him "feel relieved," found after the massagers left that they had relieved him of his wallet...