Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights of all peoples to equal economic enjoyment...
Only one way of establishing a valid claim to supremacy exists-victory at the Poughkeepsie regattas. Over the years the race on the Judson has emerged as a sort of national tournament and the winner is hailed as the champion. Harvard and Yale have never yet entered a shell in the Vassertown sweepstakes, mainly, it would seem, because the even would be an anti-climax to their own New London affair, which comes one or two weeks sooner. The Crimson and the Blue never get a chance to test their speed against that of the crews on the rest...
...Wood may make reply that his definitions are valid--are absolute--because his views are at present in general agreement with those of the majority of the American people, whose views, by democratic principle, must be accepted as sovereign. But he asks, in accordance with this self-asserted divinity, that opposition (such as the HSU) be eliminated--as "termites". After which painless extermination it is hard to see how the free discussion essential to democracy would exist. On what basis could Franklin D. Roosevelt or William M. Wood claim then to represent the beliefs of a majority of the people...
...people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...
...colostrum test is valid as early as two weeks after conception. This trigger-quickness is bested only by the ten-day interval of the Friedman rabbit test...