Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mankind with the help of guillotine or firing squad. If the U.S. opposes Communism entirely on its own materialist ground and with its own materialist weapons, e.g., by basing policy chiefly on economic appeals and military force, the U.S. will lose, because "if the materialistic-naturalistic thesis is correct, then the case for Communism is stronger than the case for the free way of life." For liberty and the "dignity of man," thought Davenport, are meaningless unless sanctioned by God. All of this has been said before by others, but rarely so well or with the eloquence of a poet...
...nothing more than a fast, accurate and very stupid clerk that can do nothing more than it is built and told to do. Clerks are useful, valuable and often necessary, but their functions are not awe-inspiring. It is more important to ask the right questions than to obtain correct answers to the wrong questions. Further, the value of a mathematician is not measured by his arithmetical computing ability...
...concluded, turn on this point. And the new U.S. tax law reflects the principle of envy. If the new long form for computing taxes is even more complex than the old, it should not be blamed upon bureaucratic obscurantism; it rises from the enormous pressure from taxpayer groups to correct particular inequities. Hard cases make bad law. Year by year the fungus of hard cases (working mother, annuitants, double-taxed dividend recipients) encrusts the incoming tax and leads the Government against its will deeper and deeper into the private lives of its citizens...
...praised him as "consistently correct," later made him boss of Manchuria, probably at Russian instigation, since the Russians were then in occupation. There Kao Kang learned the bag-of-gold technique, only the gold was Russian, and not just yellow metal, but iron, steel and machinery. Kao built Manchuria into a great industrial empire. But when he began issuing his own currency, making separate trade treaties with his Russian pals, and boasting that while China was depressed his Manchuria was booming, the idea began to get around that tough Kao was more consistent than correct. In 1953 Mao pulled...
...drop has stirred up a new battle in Washington over rigid v. flexible support prices. The House Agriculture Committee (with its Democratic majority) a fortnight ago charged that the "dangerous Government policy of lowering price supports" has "pauperized agriculture." To which President Eisenhower replied: "Not correct." The program will not be felt until '55 crops are ready for marketing...