Word: dicta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Butler has the crust to maintain that the Columbia faculty is still free. As every Nazi is free to agree with the official dicta, so every Columbia teacher is now free to follow the University in its "lofty...
Professor Perrin is witty, authoritative, not too cocksure. Though mostly avoiding dicta, he lays down...
...learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1½ years old, says she, can walk more than a mile if they are allowed to select their own pace. Other dicta...
Frequently the President's obiter dicta on prices appear to be tossed off extemporaneously. Just so in press conference he remarked that he still believed-as he had in 1933-that prices were too low but that he did not mean that copper should go up again to 19? a lb.† However, he coupled this casual expression of his views with the announcement that three days later he would really go into the question...
...average Harvardman, Roscoe Pound is a detached intellect with a round, cheery face and a green eyeshade, seated in the centre of a huge horseshoe desk, periodically emitting pithy dicta. Last week the intellect emitted a dictum of unusual interest: one year hence Roscoe Pound will resign as dean of the Harvard Law School. Reported Harvard's pressagent: "Dean Pound will continue to hold the Carter Professorship of Law. He explained that he wished to devote more of his time to writing, particularly to completing a book on jurisprudence...