Word: precept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academic freedom, a "mumbo jumbo" that allows any educator "the privilege of uprooting all the true foundations of life." (Fordham follows Father Gannon's precept: "Students should be taught obedience to the constituted authority simply because it is the constituted authority. . . We do not expect to argue with a Fordham freshman. We expect them to do as they are told...
Customers get free birthday cakes for parties (11,000 in 1940), lollypops, advice on personal problems, sherbet that comes out of a tunnel operated by an electric eye or flows like lava out of a volcano, leaflets of poesy & precept called Clinton's Food For Thot...
Britain's Precept. A yardstick to show how far WPB and the entire nation must go before they are really all-out in World War II, was provided last week by Donald Nelson's British counterpart, Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Captain Lyttelton made an international broadcast not intended as an invidious comparison but as a reminder that Britain's war effort is one of the United Nations' great assets. He cited two statistics...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...
Like Sumner, Keller applied Darwinian theories on evolution and natural selection to man-made institutions, constantly inveighed against pampering weaklings either among men or their institutions. Scorning the word "sociology" as smacking of uplift, Keller and Sumner called their subject societology. Greatest Keller precept, which no Keller student ever forgot, was a ruthless respect for facts and contempt for "thobbery" (i.e., wishful thinking...