Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phrase. Whether or not it is justified by facts is difficult to say, chiefly because there aren't any that can be used. The lack of conciliatory Russian actions in the UN is supposed to be a useful fact, but it proves very little so far as this particular issue is concerned. It does show that Premier Stalin's statement to the press was not necessarily made in good faith; but it does not show that the statement was necessarily and beyond the shadow of a doubt made in bad faith. It would have to do that to prove that...
Aiken, who was an associate of Phillips when he taught at the University of Washington in 1945, commented that "While I do not agree with Professor Phillips' political views, the primary matter is not the expression of any particular set of convictions, but academic independence...
Before too much hard feeling is aroused over the issue of Lamont Library in particular and the University's and College's policy of "equal but separate" facilities, it might be wise to review the aims of the institutions and certain inescapable facts...
...Communist party, admittedly, is not going to extend itself to create this atmosphere. It ought to have been surprising to nobody when the Daily Worker called for a pilgrimage of "The Devoted?" to the Federal Courthouse in Foley Square. This particular pilgrimage consisted of somewhere under 500 of the pamphlet passing placard carrying species of Communist. All this comes under the heading of one of the fundamental maxims of the American CP, to wit: "the best way to get a fair trial is to insult the judge...
...that, he ought to be able to keep his paper. Whether he wants it for future reference, or for sentiment's sake, or for no special reason at all, he has more use for it than the particular Department involved, which can do nothing more valuable with it than donate it to an old-paper drive...