Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used. For obviously under such a formula, there is no reason for investigation to be undertaken at all." What Buckley terribly forgets is that the classroom is just as much a research organization as the Sterling Library, that earmarking Alumni money so that students can get only selected pre-decided "truths" from the lecture platform is no different from paying a research organization to find selected, pre-decided facts. He says to tell a researcher what his answers must be is a "self-contained paradox." But Buckley wants to tell the student, the most basic researcher of all, just what...
...reader who casts his eye on a line of scripture and accepts what it 'seems to mean' is dealing in astrology or pre-Copernican astronomy rather than in the present wonder of heavenly truth. Truth depends, not alone on accuracy of meaning, but on its total setting-on what a word or a phrase meant for its original speaker in the original time and occasion...
...politics do Americans talk such "pure jabberwocky" as in discussions on international trade. So said Vergil D. Reed, vice president of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, before 400 businessmen at the 23rd annual Boston Conference on Distribution this week. The jabberwocky, said Reed, was a hangover from the pre-1914 days when the U.S. was a big debtor nation and had to strive for "a favorable balance of trade." As a result, said Reed, most Americans still "believe profoundly that exporting is desirable, that exporters are gentlemen, scholars and benefactors of the human race, that importing is undesirable...
...shoe was on the other foot, and Percy Haughton was enthusiastically strangling bulldog pups in the pre-game locker-room meetings and urging his team to go out on the field and do the same...
...Cadet Corps, composed of some 340 first-classmen, opened the pre-game proceedings by marching on Soldiers Field...