Word: priory
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this new medium is despicably low. Chiefly because of restrictions imposed by advertisers, radio to date has produced few programs of any cultural value whatsoever. To give the devil his due, classical music has never before been so widely disseminated, but in general, program directors seem to assume, a priori, that the average listener's intelligence is little above the ten-year age level. As a result instead of making even a feeble effort to improve the average mind, the guiding hands of radio chose long ago the path of least resistance--programs are brought down to the average level...
...priori, the traditional conception of education demands that the students will work hard and consistently on some straight "path" toward some nebulous "goal". It is taken for granted that the aspiring candidate for an A.B. will not waste time, that every hour of his working day will be used for acquiring that amount of knowledge which brands him an educated man. So inhuman are most of those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing...
Locals of sufficiently retentive memory will tell as a fact that there now exists less sentiment of "classmates, just classmates" than before the consummation of President Lowell's supreme segregation. This makes sense a priori. Put a man in one of the Houses for three years, and he is certain to come out considering himself not a member of the Class of 19. . as much as a member of blank House, graduating...
...were much disappointed but mostly because Train has spoiled both a fine essay on criminal methods and an entertaining story for the Post. The combination, a priori is impossible because of the limitations in length imposed by the murder story form. The author has written with a detail fitting for a scenario but as neither essay nor fiction, the book is disappointingly valueless...
...Chesterton feels that the system of thought which Thomas Aquinas brought to its highest level has a good deal to say to the modern man. He has not been bullied out of his position by scornful a priori; he realizes that the only defense of Thomas Aquinas is in explanation of his ideas, and of the simple principles upon which those ideas were founded. He shows that the Thomist philosophy was a great balance between the exaggerations of realism and idealism which preceded it, and that the exaggerations of realism and idealism which are the dominant philosophical schools...