Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider Oppenheim's resignation valid. He is still President as far as we're concerned," Burke said. "We are going to bring these charges against him and you can be sure they'll stick...
Professor Wild thought science had brought about an extreme materialistic philosophy and the worship of the scientific method. He stressed the fact that the scientific method is not a valid instrument for ferreting out the harmful material tendencies of human life...
...Kansas City, discovered that passengers who flew over a route at least twice a month were entitled to buy "commutation tickets," and thus avoid paying the 15% federal transportation tax. Mid-Continent expects to run eleven commuter routes (sample: Kansas City-Tulsa), sell commuters' ticket books (four tickets, valid for one month) at an 18% discount. At least six other major lines intend to start commuter services...
...There is a general and valid acknowledgment that the better the painter the dumber he must be, and out of this dumbness the critic is born and makes hay." French-born Jean Chariot, who wrote that bitter-seeming remark, is himself a cheerful contradiction of it. Chariot (rhymes with Hello) makes hay on both sides of the field. Last week his paintings and colored lithographs were packing people in at Colorado Springs's George Nix Gallery (including museum buyers from as far away as Washington, D.C. and San Diego), while Chariot himself expatiated on art in the Colorado Springs...
...convicts diffidently admitted that it didn't seem entirely true to life, but it is an abler and more honest try in that direction than most movies. There is impressively little hamming-up of story, and the characterizations and the danger and the suspense are unusually real and valid...