Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second Front. Behind this conception of massed effort, and the great effort necessary to prepare it, is a fundamental tenet of British and U.S. planning: no second front, in the Mediterranean or elsewhere, will be attempted until it is almost certain to succeed. The Russians may think this conception is over-timid and wrong. Others, like Airman de Seversky, think it overlooks opportunities to shorten the war by sharper, more imaginative strategy. But, for better or for worse, it is the adopted conception...
This is still the central tenet of the group. Through bi-weekly public forums, with audience participation, large public meetings, its own speaker's bureal, and a connection with the International Student Service magazine Threshold, the Council will seek this fall to pose the problems to as many people as it possibly...
...determined by the size of the bribe. And if our Congressmen feel that with the assurance of a lifetime income . . . they can render better service, then God help us and all the peoples who are wholeheartedly fighting for the dignity and preservation of a way of life whose first tenet is that a man is as good as his word...
...fears that are in us are in others, because we feel that our type of liberty will unite all men. The essence of this belief is neither liberty nor equality, but fraternity. To set ourselves apart and above the remainder of the world is to deny this most basic tenet. It is to gild ourselves with a false glow that can only blind us to the bitter problems that have brought the world...
...with this sport is that there are no rules nor is the field of play well defined. For Harvard Square isn't even a square; it's a hang-over from a colonial meeting joint now passing for a race track. Every would-be traffic reformer must accept the tenet that the place hasn't changed appreciably in design since 1636 and will continue so. Therefore any traffic regulations will have to be content with modifying what stands...