Word: scotus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skeptic Russell also speaks far more respectfully of medieval scholastics such as Duns Scotus and William of Occam than he does of the modern West's fashionable philosophers, most of whom, in their different ways, have abdicated man's proudest aspiration, which is to know what is what. Marxist and pragmatist agree that truth depends not on what is said, but on who says it-and why and when and with what results-so that for Americans who have accepted the notions of William James and John Dewey, no less than for Nikita Khrushchev, truth...
...hired as a researcher for the Business section. Says she: "I remember my first story conference all too vividly. Everybody spoke in code: '. . . The CAB is going to do this . . . T.W.A. and Pan Am are going to do that . . . The SEC is due to announce . . . The SCOTUS decision is expected . . .' Everything was initials. I didn't understand a word they were saying...
...soon learned that SCOTUS meant Supreme Court of the U.S.: one of her stories to research that first week was a court decision on an antitrust suit against tobacco companies (TIME, June 24, 1946). Six months later Liz was assigned her first cover story-Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947)-and in 1951 she became head researcher of the Business section...
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