Word: signpost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system has its dangers. A student never learns by the convenient signpost of grades just where she stands, and a complaint heard often is that, "I never really know how I'm doing." Also, as one member of the administration pointed out, "At any other school, an A ends matters; here without marks you can't win." If a girl responds correctly to these discomforts, the results can be very gratifying, for the quest for knowledge will outlast the final session of the course. There is a risk, however, that the student will lose her way without the tangible incentive...
...purchase of Avon was one more signpost along the new path that the Hearst empire has followed since the death of William Randolph Hearst in 1951. In constructing his corporate cat's cradle, Hearst paid so little attention to the ledger that in 1940 an economist, wading through Hearst's 94 separate corporations, discovered outstanding debts of $126 million. What Hearst was after was possessions, power and journalistic influence. His successors, a 13-man board of trustees headed by hard-eyed Richard E. Berlin, 65, a onetime Hearst ad salesman, prefer, where possible, to take a profit...
...Special Care. Five other Almond-locked Norfolk schools peacefully opened their doors to 5,126 whites and twelve Negro pupils. Just as peaceful was the enrollment of four Negro seventh-graders at Stratford Junior High in Arlington, Virginia-side Washington suburb. Wrote the editors of the Stratford school paper Signpost: "We have noticed that most of our classmates and friends don't especially care whether Negroes enter Stratford...
...both the Du Pont and Jencks cases had started before Whittaker joined the court.) But it is in Whittaker that the Supreme Court may find its spokesman for legal realism as against Warren's legal idealism. Asked about his attitudes of legal interpretation, Whittaker set out a signpost of his own: "I read the law only for an understanding of its meaning, and apply and enforce it in accordance with my understanding of its meaning." This doctrine of legal realism points to the responsibility to carry out U.S. law as it is, not as it ought to be under...
...they are assigned their proper place. They are not to be mistaken for absolute truth. They are used to communicate the shadow of what has been realized. Every word, every concept is a pointer which points beyond itself. The sign should not be mistaken for the thing signified. The signpost is not the destination...