Word: deeming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duchamp sold three-fourths of his output to them, and him they deem to be "the Giorgione of the 20th Century . . . He remains the unknown soldier of the war for modern art, perhaps because of the smallness of his output." Soldier Duchamp fought his last battle with a piece of canvas some 30 years ago, gave up painting to pursue a greater passion: chess. He has since (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949) become a fair player...
...than ever in Catholic concept, because this is a democratic age and democracy stresses the rights of individuals . . . You'll see that when the Dutch Catholics become a majority,* Holland will be a tolerant country-not because Dutch Catholics are indifferent to truth, not because they'll deem it prudent to be tolerant, nor again out of charity, but because they are aware of the individual rights of non-Catholics to tolerance...
Place of honor to Al Capp might have been justified as a depressing example of what our moronic majority feeds on and demands. Instead you appear to deem the pictures artistic, the tortured slapdash stories breathtaking, the primitive jargon and stupid misspellings sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...
...Truman had denounced Bridges as a "saboteur" of U.S. foreign policy. Again both sides got along with wary amicability. They had "a very satisfactory talk," said the President afterwards. The meeting was a "very eminent gesture," said Bridges, though he reserved the right to "speak my views when I deem it desirable." Out of the meeting came an agreement to keep Republican Leaders Taft and Wherry posted on all future sessions, as well as the Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...bones of sacred cows. Early this year, he flatly refused state funds to hire more help for veterans' affairs, although he was a World War I infantryman himself. "I favor all help possible to injured veterans," said he, "but veterans who returned without physical or mental damage should deem it a privilege to have served their country, to say nothing of the experience and travel they gained...