Word: crutches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blue-chip prices are now so high that the Dow-Jones 30 industrials yield only 4.55% v. a yield of 4.29% for 40 bonds. Said Paine, Webber's topflight Analyst Luttrell Maclin: "The Dow-Jones is a mathematical monstrosity. It's the weakest kind of a crutch for the investor...
...assertion that this is what the University does, but there is also truth in the charge that such an attitude is often used as an excuse for shirking the responsibility to the student. While there may be no shortcuts to knowledge, and while tutorial may indeed be a crutch, the University has long recognized that it can aid the undergraduate's efforts at self-education. It is simply not enough for the University to say, "There is Widener Library; enter and learn." Good teaching has been and will remain an indispensable part of the process to most students...
...unsympathetic" attitude of the therapist to his patient. Many have heard of the analyst who tells his patient, "You're being awfully defensive today," and shuddered. But the analyst may have, and Freud certainly had, a faith that men could stand the truth, that they do not need the crutch of illusion...
...that this great day-to-day American evolution from the bottom up was in danger. We found the economy's growth hobbled by successive layers of regulations, controls, subsidies and taxes imposed in past emergencies. We found defense spending being used partly to buy defense, partly as a crutch to support an unsound economy, thereby endangering both. We found an economy out of step with the nation it had to serve...
...natural consequence to this admission is that the legislative and executive branches of our government must work out great national questions by themselves without using the Court as a crutch. This condition, Jackson believed, is good. It does, however, imply that if Congress and the President do not exercise their prerogatives with wisdom and restraint, then the Court can do little to save them from the painful consequences...