Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, both the truckers and railroaders now have the opportunity of forging a stronger transport system to the benefit of all. They can thus affirm a fact that has long been obvious to shippers: they are better off as partners than as opponents...
...either misunderstood or misrepresented the nature of the issue and the realities of the decision, and the new President was himself a target of abuse. Nathan Pusey met this situation with a serene and quiet courage which did as much as the earlier acts of specific decision to affirm the continuing integrity of the University. Stubborn in the right, strong in his convictions as an administrator and as a man, bold where the freedom of the human mind and spirit is concerned Nathan Pusey has made himself, in the space of a few short months, the President of Harvard both...
...given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
...Conant does affirm that mankind will survive the perils of the atomic age. Moreover, through the development of solar energy--long a pet theory of his--man's material prosperity will increase despite the exhaustion of some standard fuels like coal...
Seclusion & Solitude. Back in the U.S., Van Dusen was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and almost at once found himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster...