Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prejudiced. But Walter Lippmann's challenge to the right of majorities can not be avoided so lightly. In the current issue of Harper's, he logically asserts that no virtue rests in 51 percent of the nation from the simple fact of their majority. The denial of the fundamental tenet of democracy by Mr. Lippmann, one time editor of the New Republic, and at present in charge of the New York World's editorial page, is of more than passing importance. His conclusions are not the product of a cynical aloofness but the result of experience in the school...
...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...Liberal Club has a creed, but it wisely says little about it, apart from adopting the name Liberal. Its actions and program speak for it. The principal tenet of this creed is that every honest belief deserves respect and a hearing. There is no official club doctrine on the Mooney case, the open shop or the Irish question. Outside college, Liberal Clubs are fighting organizations but the Student Liberal Club regards the discussion as always open...