Word: judgments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...while I have occasion to consult your scurvy sheet in order to ascertain at what time and place I must disgorge my knowledge in some remote field of human erudition. Thus motivated I opened your number of April tenth and inadvertently read the editorial eastigating the "Nation" for its judgment in referring to our super-finishing schools for defective flappers as the intellectual centers of America. Heartily as I agree with you in this criticism, I must take exception to your closing sneer in which you called the editors of the "Nation" and the "New Republic" "kept idealists...
...whole body of citizens. Is the infant mortality in the city very low as a result of the conscientious and progressive work of the health authorities or very high because of their poor work? In cases like these two, it may be that we can come to a fair judgment in the matter by comparing the figures for the year in question with figures of previous years. Even if we take the trouble to do this, however, we may lead ourselves to a very false conclusion, for favorable or unfavorable factors may have existed one year that were...
...Everyone assumes that the bloc as a party tries to pass judgment on every political question. That is not true. There is just as much difference of opinion on most questions between members of the Farm Bloc as among any other group. We have never taken any stand on the bonus. In regard to the question of tariff we have taken the position that agriculture is entitled to the same protection as industry. Only yesterday I saw in the morning paper that the bloc was back of a raid upon the United States Treasury for a $15,000,000 appropriation...
...part drags very noticeably, which may account for so many of the audience going away with a flat taste in their mouths. If that could be remedied in some way, the general impression gained would without doubt be more favorable. As it is, we must stand by our first judgment, that we have seen worse Follies, but we have also seen better...
...cannot appraise accurately any experimental result without knowledge of the details. Therefore it would be premature to form now any final judgment upon the highly interesting news from Chicago. Dr. Wendt is a careful and intelligent experimenter, and the presumption is therefore in favor of his conclusion. If he has good reason to believe that he has obtained any considerable amount of helium from pure tungsten, the discovery is very important, and its remote consequences cannot be foreseen...