Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later the Boston papers reported that Vatican authorities said Archbishop Cushing was within his rights in "silencing" Father Feeney and described the disciplinary action as valid. These same authorities described the conflict as a purely local one to be decided by local authorities (the Archbishop). In case of an appeal the matter could be decided by a congregation of the Holy Sec. But the Archbishop had already spoken, and so Father Feeney appealed the decision...
This year for the first time the Advocate has adopted an editorial position. Certainly this is a valid move. A college literary magazine with a tradition as old as the Advocate's should take interest and express opinions in college affairs. Last year's article on "The Jew at Harvard," and later the discussion of the club system, were directed toward this end. By editorializing on some of the controversial problems of college life, the Advocate gives impetus to its descent from the yellow pedestal of pure letters...
...will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
...within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find 'fthisis' to learn that it meant tuberculosis...
...density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement to become more measured. The method may be compared to Seurat's* architectonic and measured pointillism-where the points of colour are themselves the medium of expression, and therefore functional and valid, as medium of art and as medium of personality. Only the uninitiate would complain that Seurat should have painted in strokes...