Word: inwardness
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...Christianity of much of Europe has been driven into the catacombs. That of lands like our own, still free, tends to become more intimate and inward," he declared. "But all such movements of retreat inward from a too-difficult outer world bring with them an attendant peril--a willingness to divorce religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, leaving the ordering of civilization as a whole in the charge of candidly secular forces...
...Vagabond, you can't," an inward voice answered in a serious tone. "Dean Hanford . . . you remember. Probation, Vagabond. Dean Hanford. Probation. President Conant wouldn't like it, Vag. And then there's probation . . . Dean Hanford. Probation...
...carbon) and the right amount of oxygen to burn it, the energy of that combustion could supply the sun's heat for a mere 2,500 years. Helmholtz' old theory that the energy comes from contraction of the sun's mass (in effect from the falling inward of all its matter) is also inadequate because it would explain only 30 million years of sunniness. Even radioactivity, the spontaneous disintegration of atoms such as uranium and radium, will not answer: the sun would have to be composed entirely of uranium...
Commanders, weapons, many of the Navy's pre-war plans and conceptions failed to meet the test of war and had to be changed in the first year. Admiral King and his quality of inward hardness neither failed nor changed. The Navy's judgment of him, of what he could do and of how he would do it, was one judgment that withstood the fires...
...doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...