Word: validating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...admitted principle of Communism is that the only valid basis of choice between a lie and a truth is their comparative utility to the speaker . . . The productive, taxpaying owners of such institutions as the University of California might have a definite commitment as to the extent to which they may expect truth to prevail among the teachers of their children...
They also make some predictions, some more probable than others. Most of their arguments can equally well be used against voluntary insurance programs--and the AMA has so used them in the past. Nevertheless, a valid case against government insurance is certainly possible...
...first of the four short stories that make up the bulk of Cast a Cold Eye (the remainder consists of New Yorkerized skeins of personal history), is a large bedful of just such dim petunias, wherein every muted "Ah!" suggests hoarse response to a throat specialist rather than the valid sound made by a Pascal truth-seeker...
...only possible reason I can see for the priority system is to prevent long lines on the first day. This certainly is not valid reason for preventing graduate students from having a decent seat at a football game...
...Confidential Guide attempts to sample all members of the courses it lists; actual return on the polls runs about 30 to 50 percent. The comparison with national public opinion polling seems hardly valid: in such surveys, a small error can cause a faulty prediction; the Confidential Guide makes no attempt to predict. It tries only to present student opinion on courses, and it has frequently revised its methods to make the sampling of those opinions more accurate...