Word: forth
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...method set forth by Popper is essentially pragmatic. He advocated a humanistic outlook of science, a compromise between the axiomatic science of Descartes and the purely experimental science of Bacon. Axioms, he said, must be verified by experience...
...Bread Alone. The manifesto set forth that the root of labor's past unrest and dissatisfaction was management's own failure, all too often, to "meet the needs of man's moral and social nature." His needs went far deeper than a good wage. They included the need of recognition of his dignity as an individual, his desire for the esteem of others, and the assurance of a decent living and a secure future...
From his filthy headquarters on the Thames waterfront, a shed where he is vainly struggling with a mural of The Fall, Gulley sallies forth to bleed the rich like an impecunious vampire ("Artists," he says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself...
...taken on a conducted tour of the country. Afterwards one of them told me: "We had complete freedom to go wherever we wanted, and we were all deeply impressed by what we saw ... I am convinced that Yugoslavia is moving in the direction of our Western democracies." And so forth. Such Titotalitarianism was uncomfortably remindful of those British Conservatives in the '305 who used to return full of enthusiasm from the Hitlerian Nürnberg rallies...
...Columbia College found nothing wrong about him. A onetime Rhinebeck, N.Y. high-school principal, he first went to Columbia in 1917, quickly rose to professor of history. In class he had his own brand of brilliance. Lumbering slowly back & forth across his platform, arms folded across his chest, he had a way of making history come alive without resorting to flashy dramatics. Students flocked to hear him and seven times voted him their most popular prof essor. In 1943, when Columbia College needed a new dean, President Nicholas Murray Butler picked Carman...