Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the situation here in its present uncertain state, many men of distinct dramatic talent are discouraged from coming to this supposedly anti-theatrical college. There is a growing belief that Harvard is neglecting one of the major outlets of human expression, and in a civilization so obviously effected by the theatre as that of the present day, this impression can not continue without ultimately retarding the progress of the University...
...reading period, a sort of preliminary breathing time. Every one is thankful for the relief it offers as a vacation, but thought on the matter goes little farther. But even if the feeling on these festivities is purely negative, there is no actual foundation for the pessimistic belief that Thanksgiving is becoming obscured by modern life. It is not a matter of more or less, but difference in expression...
...Vatican City last week one prelate firmly said: "Etiquette decrees that a Catholic sovereign must kneel to the Pope and kiss his toe." But among Fascisti belief was current that His Holiness will decree a special exemption in favor of Vittorio Emanuele, "King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People...
...whispered Richard Corbett, "is only a religious belief...
...Bible has come to be regarded, not as the traditional basis of all religious belief, but as the literature of a long religious development. If, we do not feel concerned about miracles today, it is because we have learned to see the spiritual meaning of life not in physical marvels but in the achievement of moral values and religious devotion to the best that we know. The modern student is finding no conflict between his scientific thinking and his religious appreciation...