Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steinbeck's already famous phrase, "The flies have conquered the flypaper," is a memorable slogan and, taking a very long view, a valid observation. But in terms of here & now, it has still to be proved...
Arguments that Dakar and the French flect might be turned over to the Axis if the U. S. took decisive action on Vichy collaboration may have been valid in the days when that regime was still playing mouse to Germany's cat, but with Laval in command of all military and political resources, France becomes a full fledged member of the still growing corporation. Vichy's navy will be on hand when the Axis is ready to use it, and with every indication of the start of a spring offensive, that time must be near...
Says Mr. Hill : "We have no valid tests on this. . . . Besides, the precocious child-actor is apt to be pretty much of a brat." Roger Hill, who was born there, inherited Todd School from his father in 1928. He believes that budding geniuses should be nurtured. Todd's curriculum is designed to prepare boys for college, but extracurricular activities are Hollywoodian: boys paint, act, design stage sets, make sound films, radio speeches...
...with "analysts" whose opinions are no better than the next man's. Catering to a public fatigue with such dubious experts, a recent issue of Pic made an indiscriminate attack on the best- Messrs. Shirer, Davis, Kaltenborn, Swing-making them out as superfluous to newspaper readers. The valid point, obscured by this sort of thing, is that newscasters would be more effective if they were fewer and better. In accuracy, coherence and discretion, only a few newscasts will stand the test of print...
...Adam Yarmolinsky '43, who pointed out the difficulties facing the novelist in a time of total war. Not only is he faced by the threat of censorship and the shortage of printing material, but he must also find it impossible to view his topic with the impartiality necessary for valid literary effort...