Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio listeners who tuned in Bob Taft's debates with pro-New Deal Congressman-Professor T. V. Smith of Illinois. The tally as to which had better arguments: Taft 66%, Smith 34%. Since Bob Taft is a notably inept speaker, and Representative Smith a notably skilled one, the judgment was as much a comment on the New Deal's unpopularity as on the junior Senator from Ohio...
...thoroughly Protestant in its attitude, and in spite of the melancholy and grimness of some passages and the profound nature of the work as a whole, the optimistic Protestant conception of a blessed eternity for the righteous is the essence of its spirit. The terror of the Day of Judgment is followed by the defeat of Death, and even such despair as that of the second movement, "Behold, all flesh is as the grass," gives way to rejoicing in the happy fate of "the redeemed of the Lord...
Idaho, home of Isolationist Senator Borah, backed his judgment and viewed with alarm the direction in which events were drifting. To some young Idahoans, the prospect of war seemed adventurous. ("Look at the fun Dad had in the World War.") Others talked of heading for the hills with a pack horse...
This at first may sound a little far-fetched, but think it over, and you will see that there is no reason why the oral sense can't be developed just as fully as the ocular--why judgment by sound isn't just as good as by sight. Naturally it takes a very keen ear and a certain natural sense of psychology to do this, but Templeton can and does...
...escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee Author Kesten, and decides not to commit suicide but to sit in judgment on "all the smug, indifferent people on earth...