Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the journalistic welkin rings with the praise of long-distance flyers, the rank and file of aviation moves slowly along. Several years ago at Harvard a Flying Club, with no stronger interest among its members than a common faith in the future of flying, languished and died. Now with a plane of its own to operate the club has a year of definite achievement to its credit...
...correction, and if there is any suggestion you have to offer as to why they are faulty, I shall be very grateful to you. Can you furnish any sound reason as to why I should embrace a deity which offers no evidence of existence ? If I should place my faith in this deity, why wouldn't it be just as logical to place my faith in Santa Claus as well? In fact the latter gentleman ought to command more respect, as he at least shows some signs of life when Christmas gets around. In that respect the children show...
...only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student body. The proposed hall has, besides, the advantage over Memorial Hall of a better location. But all progress waits upon the student poll...
...committee also proposed to delete entirely the old article of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith: "Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract [for marriage], being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract...
...more leisured reflection upon the nature of this book may easily start thought coursing through the various strata of speculation from Gulliver and Mark Twain to Bradley and Pirandello. The terrifying enigma of the sanity of the insane or the falseness of reality leaves us with a shaken faith even in the surcease of our own transitory mutability. Herbert Spencer said "Not only is there a soul of good 'in things evil', but a soul of truth 'in things erroneous'," and Mr. Muir has provided us with another starting point for speculative exercise in the good and evil, the true...