Word: valid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I tried to suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
Responsibility. Said the Pope: "In particular, the Catholic judge cannot pronounce, unless for motives of great import, a decision of civil divorce (where it does exist) in a marriage valid before God and the Church.* He cannot forget that such a decision practically touches not only on civil effects, but rather in reality leads to the erroneous consideration that the ties are broken and new ties are valid and binding . . ." In this respect, he added, "your duty is noticeably lighter in Italy, where divorce (the cause of so many interior conflicts for the judge who must enforce the law) does...
...Such unions, by Roman Catholic law, include those marriages of non-Catholics which the church recognizes as valid...
...goal at Harvard in the second year of this NSA "experiment" is 1500 cards sold, Allen E. Kline '50, head of the drive, announced yesterday. Holders of 400 cards sold earlier this year will be given transfers so their cards will be valid until September 1950, the expiration date of the cards now on sale...
...prosecution's charges were "unmitigated bunk," a vicious libel. The Communists merely advocated socialism as the only valid answer to the abuses of fascist capitalism, the only way to peace, freedom and security. It was not Communism which taught violence, but the tottering capitalist class which advocated it in order to save itself. Communism advocated force only after a socialistic government had been peacefully set up-as a method of preventing a counterrevolution...