Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention was called to this danger when Secretary Morgenthau made public a political letter he had received from Senator Arthur Vandenberg who wrote: "If we have anything like $4.000,000,000 on instant foreign call, our financial structure and our price structure rest to a considerable extent on foreign judgment or caprice...
Many a patriotic citizen within & without the G. A. R. had tried in vain to stop the advancing tide. In 1882 Senator Hawley of Connecticut declared: "There are no men who will pass a severer judgment on excessive or unnecessary or fraudulent pensions than the soldiers themselves...
...Critical judgment appears even this early to have settled down to the opinion that the poetical achievement of the Imagists is more historically than intrinsically important. Witter Bynner spoke pointedly when he said that "the imagists note with admirable accuracy all sorts of small adventures of the nerves," while they were aparently incapable of the larger adventures of the heart and head. Mr. Damon's championship of Miss Lowell's verse is at once gallant and learned, and the elaborate exegesis that he gives for each of the longer poems is worth having--for reference, at least...
...when he means to be gay. He has a gift for phrase; and, when under control, he communicates his point, quote: "If only all students were 'great men', all would be well. But alas, many are not, and in them indifference is no true neutral, philosophical calm, no objective judgment, but rather a petty reserve which too often excludes its possessor from lively interests. The reaction to the Cross-system has resulted in what Dr. Johnson would have described as an infelicitous congress of inharmonious invidualities . . . It is still Utopian to imagine that any university will attempt to educate students...
...announced have found a certain field of usefulness. The medical profession has thus far refrained from criticizing this interference in its field. This year, however . . . the American Chemical Society cannot dodge its responsibility in this case. It is neither within its province nor within its competence to give critical judgment on the treatment of disease. If it wishes to maintain the respect of the medical profession and the public, the American Chemical Society cannot permit itself to be used as an agent for unestablished proprietary remedies in the exploitation of the sick...