Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some distinction and the author of Butler's biography-a first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...have been developed for the term "fireside chat". For a meeting of minds of a high intellectual caliber on a field of common interest, where ideas are exchanged freely and no one attempts to play ringleader or bully recalcitrant thinkers into jumping through the hoops of his own individual dogma, is a refreshing change from the drama the nation has been witnessing in Washington. The Council of Government Concentrators has inaugurated a mode of informal debate peculiarly fitted to the Harvard--and the democratic --ideal of freedom of discussion...
...latter have won their equality. Dr. Wooley's attitude sorely hurts her own cause, for not only does she act in an unsportsmanlike way, but she tells the world that her group of women are rather unsure of their position, are sensitive and touchy about acceptance of their dogma...
...those that come from his associates. They are deeply felt, and spontaneous in their expression. They are, in a word, appreciations of a man as well as a genius. Without question, his students and associates find much of their admiration based upon the fact that Professor Whitehead teaches no dogma. They are invariably stimulated by his large and embracive theme that the great key to philosophy is individual thinking relating to the world of experience...
When U. S. power men went to their own defense there were hisses and applause. Foreign visitors distinguished themselves by disagreeing politely but pointedly with the New Deal's dogma on utilities. Carl Krecke, official head of the German delegation, expressed himself against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained...