Word: validating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter how valid research conclusions may be, they are impotent unless they are applied. This application can come only through minds that are trained in sound methods and practical application. Thus, as a part of its "scientific approach" the Bureau has emphasized its training program...
...discover general laws about mind or behavior, which, like the laws of physics and chemistry, hold true for all similar cases. In so doing, they overlook the personalities of the individuals from whom their data are gathered. In this book Dr. Allport holds that psychologists may also arrive at valid generalizations by studying the unique personalities of individuals. "A general law," he says, "may be a law that tells how uniquencess comes about." In pursuing this apporach he introduces the reader to a field of interest new to most Americans, though it has been more thoroughly explored in Germany...
...Labor Board last fortnight held National Electric Products Corp. in Ambridge, Pa. guilty of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act. A Federal district court had held that a contract by which the corporation granted a closed shop to an A. F. of L. union was valid and must be obeyed. The Board flatly declared the contract was "void and of no effect" and must be ignored (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week the Board carried the controversy a step farther only to make a monkey of itself...
...kids is a humiliating job for a man, Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart), the gangster who comes home to find his mother loathes him, and his old sweetheart Francey (Claire Trevor) is a physical ruin. The not unhappy ending of the screen version of Dead End is no less valid than that of the stage original, should strike even the most critical cinemagoers as art rather than artifice...
...fear that the SEC would soon inaugurate its "segregation plan" announced last June. To achieve an investment market and reduce speculation, the SEC proposed, by segregating the functions of broker and dealer, to reduce the kind of quick-turnover buying and selling which these professionals practice. Unless a "valid case" against it were presented by the Exchange, Chairman Landis declared he would achieve this by: 1) placing all trading by members, on the floor or off, for their own account on a fully margined basis-forcing them to put up cash instead of allowing them to buy in and sell...