Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge are nature in experience and wisdom, their records worth examining. More important, however, is the philosophy behind the activity and their method of coping with their problems. A basic tenet of their theory is that a man must first sell himself to them. Only then can they introduce and describe their marketable product to the prospective employer. Every conceivable way of facilitating alumni employment is used. Personal conferences, the discovery of interests, the compilation of information, the arrangement of interviews between "scouts" and students, the inspection of various plants: these are but some of the more routine matters...
...recklessly silly satire hurled against that great helpless brute, the cinema. The movies for several years now have been offering their humble deference to the older sister, in the form of receiving players and plots, and the haughty stage has been responding with scornful excoriations. The stage's chief tenet is that anyone really a part of the celluloid industry must perforce be moronic...
Early in the 19th Century, a fanatical Swede named Eric Janson founded a cult whose simple theology was based on the single tenet that the Bible was the only book that could properly be used in religious services. Even hymnals were considered by Eric Janson to be worldly gauds. Oppressed in Sweden by orthodox authorities, Eric Janson sent a boatload of his followers to pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their...
...Assembly ended last week the rest of the U. S. could gain an honest, restrained view of its zealous activities from the newsreels, wire services and the Eastern press, which gave it publicity comparable to that which the Oxford Groups have received in Europe. Welcomed because an Oxford Group tenet is to spread the message of "God-control" as widely as possible, the publicity emphasized the adroit staging of the Assembly, the newsworthiness of the names identified with it, the singular nature of the testimony by which Oxford Group ideas were proffered to those who cared to listen...
Puerto Rican politicians long ago discovered the conviction that the people of Puerto Rico, like the people of Cuba, of a right ought to be free and independent. But this traditional tenet of the Liberal Party which ruled Puerto Rico for years was largely an academic issue which failed to rouse the drowsy insular population to thought or action. The only violent advocates of independence have been the Nationalists, a small minority party led by Pedro Albizu Campos. Two Nationalists recently assassinated Colonel Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week...