Word: validating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked: If a man locked a door to keep out several federal officers, would he "commit as many crimes as there are officers?" Obviously not, as the majority saw it. Dissenting, Justice Tom Clark argued...
These thrusts are as valid as the accolades. As a columnist, writing for a potential readership of some 20 million, Lippmann has a reach far short of his grasp. His work is literate but can also be obtuse, repetitious, and obscure. The reader is expected to know all about "the long Soviet note to Berlin" and the ideology of John Maynard Keynes; Columnist Lippmann will not enlighten him. "I do not assume," he says, "that I am writing for anybody of a lower grade of intelligence than...
History and Literature is a synthesis presupposing a valid cultural unity--rather vague terms, which no one on the Committee (H & L is not a department) is eager to define...
...idea of presuming to teach History and Lit as a synthesis--and not as a combination--necessitates a meeting-ground. Someplace, literature must be taught as history and vice versa. There is some consensus as to when this is valid--as, for example, that the art of a Shakespeare can be studied as craftsmanship whereas it is more profitable to approach Herman Wouk as a statement of group adjustment; but the dividing line never really becomes clear...
...Validated. In Seattle, when Judge Vernon Gould asked a defendant if his driver's license was valid, the man said: "No, sir. It's up to date...