Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost certain that another Taft bill would have little trouble in the present Congress. And it's almost as certain that future legislation could go farther than last year's proposal. It all depends on how hard the Administration and other Democratic big-wigs push. The budget provides room for 300 million dollars and one million for a survey of colleges to find out the "most practical means of providing additional opportunities for capable young people who could not otherwise afford a college or university education...
...Barry, the translator, has chosen to retain certain odd twists in the dialogue which tend to make the audience conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left...
...extent that certain industries did this, it was their own fault that Congressmen raised an outcry for an excess-profits tax even though the U.S. may end the current fiscal year with a budget surplus. Warned Wyoming's New Dealing Senator Joe O'Mahoney: "My theory is that any industry earning excess profits from full employment or Government spending should pay more taxes...
Mather said that there is at present a bill submitted to the Massachusetts legislature which would restrain colleges from teaching about "atheistic communism." But there is a difference, Mather pointed out, between teaching certain doctrines, so that they may be compared with others, and advocating them. "In the market place of opinion," Mather said, "democracy will always win providing there is freedom of discussion...
Freedom is also essential to the growth of science, Mather continued. While security is necessary in certain scientific research it is also important to make the distinction between free thought and disloyalty. Mather presented, as an example of the hysteria prevailing in the scientific world, the case of a lady scientist who was called upon to explain the presence of a Paul Robeson record album in her room...