Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Take the General Education Report," he ventures. "The outstanding fact was hardly in its Intrinsic newness, for similar approaches had been attempted else where, but in its tremendous effect among faculties all over the country. Only the imprimatur of Harvard University can get that effect. Why at Cal there's been desultory discussion for years: the Report was like yeast in the place. Committees have been set up, they're holding meetings, something will be done...
...most striking of several legal opinions, diligently gathered by Keenan, was one by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo (1934): "International law . . . has at times, like the common law within states, a twilight existence during which it is hardly distinguishable from morality or justice till at length the imprimatur of a court attests its jural quality. The gradual consolidation of opinions and habits has been doing its quiet work...
...August issue of the undenominational Christian Herald presents a question-&-answer analysis of the Catholic position. The Herald asks the questions, takes its answers verbatim from the pamphlet Freedom of Worship, published by the Paulist Fathers with the imprimatur of Cardinal Spellman. Excerpts...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
Regent In? On the pressing problem of a regency for Greece (TIME, Dec. 25) Mr. Eden was equally conciliatory. "We are not against a regency. . . . The first suggestion for a regency was made by our ambassador in Athens. . . ." With Britain's imprimatur, a regency seemed the quickest way to end the fighting...