Word: detachedness
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¶ Men are urged to consider, for informal wear, the advantages of the heavily starched, detached collar*: it does not wilt under studio lights. Bright, patterned ties, like print frocks, are out-and for the same reason.
This week, feeling its venerable age and authority, the American Association for the Advancement of Science will celebrate its centenary in Washington. Unlike the speakers at most scientific gatherings, who remain coolly detached from human problems, the scientists at this week's convention are worried about the ways that...
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"Such a diversion of public-school funds involves the interlocking of the taxing function of the state with the institutional functioning of the church which owns and operates . . . schools. . . . The majority decision of the Supreme Court in the New Jersey case undertook to justify such aid to parochial schools by...
"The fallacy of this procedure should be apparent. Other functions of the school can be detached from the school in like manner one after the other. . . . The state cannot assume responsibility for any function of a parochial school without interlocking its function with the institutional functioning of the school and...