Word: concept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Ezra Benson called in the press, read a letter he had sent to Mitchell. Its gist: "The proposed regulations . . . retain the concept of federal intervention and administrative control and regimentation that is contrary to the principles of this Administration and that is so repugnant to agriculture." Benson's remedy for the migrants: more study...
...natural course of events to answer a prayer. While most (62 per cent) believed that God is just, even more (78 per cent) felt that undeserved suffering occurs in the world. Few (32 per cent) believed in the doctrine of grace, even fewer (14 per cent) in the concept of Hell. Were one to construct a concept of God embracing all these conflicting notions, He would be so antinomical as to provide no meaning for anyone...
...think the concept of the national state has become so dangerously anachronistic that the U.S. should take the risks involved in surrendering some of her sovereignty, in a serious attempt at achieving a strong international federation or world government...
...fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena...
...look equally askance at the theist and the atheist who both say more than they could possibly know. This is reflected in the factors they most frequently check as having principally contributed to their present religious attitude: "the fact that contemporary science does not appear to require the concept of God to account satisfactorily for natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic, "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation...