Word: faithful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...living at a new high, and unemployment compensation at a new high, too. He gave the body-economic a couple of solid thumps and came up with his prescription: some belt-tightening around the soft underbelly of business and labor, a generous dosage of self-reliance, and a faith that the U.S. Government has no intention of letting a full-scale depression develop...
...Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General William Rogers would join in nationally televised cere monies with the man who conceived the idea of Law Day: Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, president of the American Bar Association, prime mover in the campaign to get the U.S. this week to reaffirm its faith in the forces of law for peace...
...most striking fact about current national developments is the rise of natural law philosophies almost everywhere." Writes Massachusetts' U.S. District Judge Charles E. Wyzanski: "We live in a world where so many revolutions are occurring simultaneously that we clamor for stable principles to which we can anchor faith . . . And nowhere more than in the law is there a demand that we address ourselves to the subordination of the world of fact to the world of value. No one trained in the Anglo-American tradition, who paused to consider what 'law' was as administered by Hitler...
...served to all comers. Any church is some Church ... As such it has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery ... By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...
Sectarian preference is, for most of us, but an accident of birth--we accept the religion of our family. The fact that few Christians, Jews, or other sectarians change from "the faith of their fathers" to another sect leaves no doubt that family determines sectarian allegiance. This is true of theologians and other religious leaders as well as of the unlettered. Yet, our young people, impressed by the reputation or position of a sectarian leader look upon him as an authority and feel a sense of security. The "authority" (bound by a childhood commitment) is in reality but the authority...