Word: validating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culture purge. Translator Bakshy writes "of a changing attitude in official circles. . . . Playwrights . . . and some theater directors . . . who only a few years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...
...Senior 440, 880, one mile, and long distance champion, set a new unofficial national scholastic record for 200 yards in the time of 2:01.5, less than three seconds above the world's record for the event. Because of the informal nature of the meet, the record was not valid...
...debate. Collegiate performers, on the other hand, who are ostensibly on teams because they like to play, rather than as a means of supporting themselves, should be treated as such., Their sports activities are worthy of comment, but their private lives are strictly their own affair, except when valid claims of professionalism can be produced...
Former chapter chairman Richard G. Axt '47 declared, on the other hand, that there were "no valid grounds for failing to support National since, in the words of Charles Bolte, 'those statements merely confirm and make explicit what has always been implicit in ... the Preamble to our Constitution: that subservience to the principles of conspiratorial and undemocratic organizations is utterly incompatible with membership...
...would cease to exist when nobody is around to see it, except for the fact that it is always visible to God.* Berkeley's metaphysics made crusty old Dr. Sam Johnson so angry that he kicked a stone, saying: "Thus I refute Berkeley!" This, of course, was no valid refutation; if it were, a Sensorialist could refute the bishop even more poignantly, if less painfully, by going to bed with his girl...