Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times-Herald, many another U.S. newspaper was also in print with even scarier stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...
...reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...Stassen had failed to support most of his charges. Many a citizen thought the final word should come from the committee. In doing any speculating at all, Ed Pauley had technically (but, he claimed, unwittingly) violated the executive order forbidding Government employees to speculate; he had morally violated the tenet that public servants must be above suspicion. But was he guilty of using his public position for his private profit? The committee owed Ed Pauley, and the public, an answer...
...that, the committee sheepishly backed down. Michigan's Homer Ferguson introduced the resolution which Anderson had suggested, and both Houses quickly passed it. The tenet that Congress has the right to inquire into any facet of U.S. life was upheld-so long as the inquiry conformed to law and reflected the will of Congress. This week Clint Anderson went to work preparing his list for publication. It would, he said, contain 'about 14,000 names...
Speaking Labor's language had become an approved major tenet of Tory doctrine. The Conservatives had a new statement of party policy to talk about. Their platform was a pamphlet called The Industrial Charter. It was 38 close-printed pages, some major sections of which closely resembled some of the political philosophies expounded in Keep Left, the recent pamphlet of Richard Crossman, ambitious leader of Labor radicals in the House of Commons...