Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatly concerned about the Republican Party-because in my judgment it is the only political organization in the United States today that can possibly ultimately bring back to the American people those principles . . . which transposed this country from a wilderness to the great industrial nation...
...responsive to classical music, and have heard little or no jazz, will argue that a swing classic is meaningless, superficial, or psycho-pathetic, depending usually on the degree to which it is hot. Such a comment is the product of unmitigated ignorance. The commenter is trying to pass judgment on the basis of his sense of classical-music values. He should be given to understand that this is an entirely mistaken standard of judgment. The only way he can possibly qualify himself to comment intelligently on jazz music is for him to listen to it until he has developed...
...fact-biggest in peacetime, second biggest of all U. S. history-this great fact stood out like a large sore thumb. The budget was a "document full of human meaning," as the Newark News noted. Like the budgets of Mr. Average Citizen, it was full of unjustifiable errors of judgment, of expenses borne out of habit, of big installments still being paid on past mistakes. Like private budgets, too, was its patient, powerless, hopeful meaninglessness: there was no magic in it that would keep the U. S. within its income-just as a budgeted citizen looks over his checkbook...
...first place, the inheritance and environment of the person involved is important. For instance, a person who is known to be mentally and physically slow should not be put to work in a position where quick reaction is needed, where a crisis might arise requiring quick judgment and action. Then in the second place, the mental and emotional factor must be taken into consideration. Under this category come such things as fear, anger, worry, inattention, all those things which tend to distract a person from the task in hand. With these two as a basis, there is a third factor...
Until last week Ernie Pyle, an inconspicuous little man, with thinning reddish lair and a shy, pixy face, was not celebrated as a straight news reporter. Once, for a few years, he was managing editor of he Washington News against his better judgment, distinguished himself by putting the arrest of Hauptmann, kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby, at the bottom of page 1. But five years ago Ernie left Washington, went to New Mexico for a rest. He sent some informal stories to the News about things and people around him, soon got a roving commission from Scripps-Howard to write...