Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily as the U.S. took Cuba from Spain. In 1941 U.S. preparedness had begun to be more formidable. But only a few weeks ago, U.S. officers in the Philippines told Author-Correspondent Clare Booth about Homer Lea because his conception of a Japanese attack on the Philippines was still valid even in many details...
Under the complicated P.R. system, a quota is established form the number of valid voice polled, and once a candidate has received enough to fill this quota, the rest of his votes automatically are distributed among the second choices marked on the ballots. Thus none are wasted...
...great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Some blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Hollywood, that the movie-going public has an I.Q. a little lower than that of a mentally retarded twelve...
Since none of these objections are very valid, it would be extremely narrow of the Faculty to deny these few last-year men a chance to get their diplomas at mid-years before going into the service...
...cent of the freshman class were willing to fight overseas (compared to 33% a year ago) ; 89% said it was more important to beat Hitler than stay out of war; 36% wanted to fight right away. Said the Princetonian (100% isolationist a year ago): "We . . . believe that the valid debate is over, that isolationists in large measure now amount to merely obstructionists. . . . We urge these people to examine their own consciences, to ask themselves as democratic citizens if it were not better for democracy that they yield as we have yielded...