Word: credo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the other points of great importance in the credo to which the students agreed are: (these are summaries, not direct quotes) There shall be no idea of racial superiority, and within countries all minorities shall give up some of their national sovereignty to a world organization. Raw materials, etc., shall be used for the good of all instead the benefit of a few. These three points may seem commonplace today, but think back no further than 1939 and try to imagine student delegates from a great majority of the nations of the world including the United States, agreeing...
Even though the credo had been a complete failure, the Conference would have been worth-while. For, in the cause of international understanding and good will, at least as much was accomplished by informal conversation over meals, in the lobbies, and wherever delegates came together, as in the formal sessions, perhaps even more. Julia C. Deaue, Radcliffe '44. (Delegate of The Student League of America to the International Student Conference...
...designer was a plain-monickered Manhattan interior decorator named Dan Cooper. Affable, barrel-chested Designer Cooper spent years buying and selling Tudor chairs and Louis XIV sofas. Then he decided that what the restless U.S. needed, to beat the high cost of moving vans, was capsule furniture. His credo: "What the heck do we need in the way of furniture? We need a place to sit, to sleep, to put our personal possessions into or on top of, to eat, to write and play games." Trade-named Pakto, the Cooper capsules are manufactured by North Carolina's Drexel Furniture...
...TIME is all of these-TIME is more than these. And no one can ever understand TIME until he understands the purposes and the thinking which direct our correspondents and researchers, and motivate our writers. As much as any large group of intelligent men can agree on any one credo, I believe they are agreed that...
...English A-1 prize short story is something of a shock. Mature in its technique, Robert Ogden's "Sandy" still seems somewhat out of place, for it adds too little to the usual in horse stories to be truly worthwhile. Wallace Stegner's article, "A Credo for the Unconvinced," is an interesting revaluation of the basis of contemporary criticism which, while it may prove too personal for universal approval, should convince many of the sympathy with which this English A-1 section man will regard their work. The abbreviated version of the Advocate's usual guide to the night life...