Word: validating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enforcement are the only guarantees of order within states so the recognition of international law and the establishment of some means for enforcing it are the only means by which men can hope to gurantee order between states. The defense of international law is one of the most valid justifications for the use of armed force and it is unfortunate that the Brooks House Poll failed to provide for the expression of opinions concerning individual action in this contingency...
...central bureau; after that, suggestions can only be preferred. However, if all Freshmen wee to be assigned to Houses automatically through a central bureau, it would seem logical to permit them to put down on their applications one choice of a House incases where there might be real land valid reason for so doing: having had a brother in the House, having all close fiends there, finding the desired tutor only in that House, being acquainted with the House master, and similar reasons. (Under the present system the men with the most valid reasons for entering a particular House...
...study now pursued in French 2, he was admittedly rather uncertain as to the purpose of the course. This uncertainty has not been shared by these attempting to meet the language requirements, for they have eagerly seized upon French 2, and to a lesser degree French 1, as a valid and easy means of satisfying these. The result is an overcrowded course, presenting poorly organized and uninteresting material to a group of students whose only purpose in the course is meeting the language requirements in the simplest possible manner. Such a course does not belong in the Harvard curriculum...
...Harry B. Maris, observing radio signals one day, noticed that they came with an unaccountable time lag. He could explain the lag by supposing that the radio waves were reflected from a layer of ions 1,300 mi. high. If his supposition was valid, the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer was not a pulsating spheroid, but a spheroid with one axis pushed out to make a shape much like that of a standard X-ray tube, with Earth & its inhabitants at the centre. The distances from the Earth's magnetic poles to the ends of the '"tube" would be about...
...Poetry Room, which was established two years ago in memory of Professor Woodberry, is a particularly glaring example of an expenditure of money with no valid reason. It was set apart on the third floor of Widener, comfortably furnished, enriched with volumes from Any Lowell's library, and endowed with a fund to buy current books of poetry and pay for occasional lectures. From time to time exhibits of valuable books and manuscripts have been arranged. An always, in a steady stream, little books of verse, neatly bound in the appropriate colors, have trickled in to take their places...