Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Criteria for selection of charities were published in the CRIMSON of 20 October. Salzburg fails to qualify because: 1) it is not primarily dependent upon student-donated funds for operating expenses. 2) There is distinct question as to whether or not it is actually oriented towards vital student needs...
...Dewey said, "Education is growth," but the meaning of this became "so confused that many teachers took it to mean that learning was no longer important, that Dewey had discovered something called 'growth' which was neither maturation nor learning but which superseded both...Two distinct concepts had been replaced by one fuzzy...
Nevertheless, U.S. industry is discovering some distinct and valuable principles. One is the principle that decentralization is the key to producing executives. Such corporations as Du Pont and Procter & Gamble (TIME, Oct. 5) have found that separating a huge complex into distinct divisions-each with its own chief executive responsible for his own costs and his own profits-develops initiative, command and responsibility...
...Governor Warren undertakes to act as Chief Justice next Monday, he will be holding office, if at all, only until the end of the next session of the Senate. This recess appointment will be distinct from his permanent appointment and, indeed, would continue to be valid, if valid at all, even if the Senate were to reject his nomination for a permanent appointment. The permanent appointment will be subject to three future contingencies; (1) the decision of the President to forward his nomination to the Senate; (2) the decision of the President not to withdraw the nomination before...
Kinsey's own emotion about science may blind him to one of science's shortcomings: the great difficulty it has in dealing precisely with the emotions of human beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them plus a few mental attitudes of which his subjects are sufficiently aware to tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot...