Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars and musicians. Members were chosen as students, sent to elite schools, from which only the best were selected to become members of the Order. Since they were not allowed to marry, they...
...Motives of Two Men. Was there a valid principle at stake between Fairless' theory of contributory pensions and Murray's theory of pensions financed entirely by industry? The majority of pension plans in U.S. industry were noncontributory. But there was also plenty of precedent in the U.S. (including Social Security) for the other theory. On other fronts last week industries were busy making bargains based on both propositions (see below) as pragmatic matters of business rather than as items of far-reaching sociological or economic import...
Doctors have assured Miss Field that she will be able to appear this evening. Customers holding tickets to last night's performance may exchange them for ducats valid any other night of the two-week...
...stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head had enough, the claim was valid...
...seems to be the thesis of the Lampoon's high command that their journal is published purely for the amusement of themselves, their minions, and those of their friends who share their exact estimate of what is funny. This would be a valid argument if the Lampoon were typed on Kleenex and passed fraternally from hand to hand. However, the Lampoon is a bona fide publication, "Copyrighted . . . entered at the Boston Post Office," and engaged in selling advertising space to merchants who presumably expect to reach more people than are usually gathered in the Great Hall of the aviary...