Word: mering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as placement grades and a confidential parental letter. These advisers do not necessarily pamper or subdue the individual. Rather do they help him to adapt his individuality to his college with a minimum of friction, a minimum of mistakes. They stand as interpreters of the University, not as mere representatives of its rule books. When a Freshman arrives full of eagerness to plunge into his field of concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful of the line his college career will take, this adviser attempts...
...another Dalton tax measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that...
...other hand, that the separation of church and state does not of itself ensure the full religious freedom of citizens or churches, as in Russia. . . . The problems of ... the enmeshing in human life of power, reason and conscience are too vast and intricate to be solved by the mere separation of church and state. We must go beyond this to a sound, positive statement of their respective functions and proper relations...
...Dick Harlow has played his cards with almost limitless skill. . . . There are some men who cannot be repaid for their effort in mere money, and certainly no amount of the stuff can have recompensed Harlow for the unequal struggles he always has fought and the brilliant victories he often has achieved. For this man, I ask the miracle of a victory." --November...
Newshawks must be alert-as courts are-to the changing meanings of words. "Racket," which once meant a mere trick-and was not libelous-now means an illegal business-and may be. The greatest danger, Wittenberg points out, is that newspapers, with no ready means of checking many of the stories they print, must rely on the accuracy of the wire services and news syndicates. Yet in 47 states (only Florida excepted), newspapers cannot avoid libel suits by blaming news services for mistakes. Wittenberg thinks a change is due, along the lines of a 1932 Florida decision, which ruled that...