Word: casual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chemistry emerged from a despised art, alchemy, to a profession; and it was a long, slow and painful process." Mr. Conant advised applying the analogy to business. "The old alchemists, a very secretive crowd, who tried to keep for themselves the secret of their art, had only a casual regard for the truth. But the revolution came with a pamphlet entitled "The Skeptical Chemist' . . . . I think a skeptical spirit is to be recommended in studying business procedures...
...other corporations as it can woo and win. The procedure in both cases is the same?soft words, moonlight, tentative kisses, polite talk of money. Last week the automobile industry knew that a number of companies were out holding hands in the moonlight but whether it was just a casual flirtation or a real engagement which would end in corporate wedlock no one could yet be sure...
...matters?Sex and Fairy Tales? Dr. Adams sharply disagrees with "advanced" psychologists. A child, she says, is inquisitive, gullible but not equipped to understand scientific facts. It does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...
...with friends in spite of his intellectual snobbishness, is shy, cynical and inclined to be inarticulate in company. His vocabulary sometimes exceeds his ability to express himself. Senators felt obliged to ask him what he meant by: "Chance has substituted itself for the anthropomorphic interpretation of history as a casual sequence." Columbia & Campaign. Not his personal characteristics but his social ideas were what made Dr. Tugwell an issue with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted to the Senate some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when...
After this inner wrestling had come to its close, and the Packard brow had regained its natural serenity, he delivered himself of the following opinion, couched, as is apparent even to the casual reader, in weighty and legal verbiage...