Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poignantly for Milwaukee's taxpayers, Milwaukee might once have purchased rights to the Activated Sludge patents for $25,000 but preferred to gamble on their validity. The process was originally suggested at the Lawrence Experimental Station in Massachusetts in 1890. Further experiments were carried on in Manchester, England. About 1914 patents on the process were taken out in England and elsewhere by a British foundryman named Walter Jones. He formed Activated Sludge, Ltd., died in 1922. An American named Edgar C. Guthard, the U. S. licensee, and Activated Sludge, Ltd. sued Chicago's Sanitary District...
...snapping turtle can be more close-mouthed than Vice President Garner and there was nothing to confirm such a supposition. But if the supposition were not valid, there remained only one inference: President and Vice President neither expected nor hoped to win action on the Supreme Court or any other important issue for several weeks-the White House had resigned itself to letting the New Deal program sink or swim in the Congressional doldrums...
...state of mind of this country from August 1914 we entered the war was the state of mind of the helpless observer of a great calamity. The sides formed, the propaganda rained, every day heightened the emotional tension but in this country there was no valid way for an individual to relieve his sense of frustration. There was nothing to do but about and boat the air like the frenzied rooter at a football game nothing to do but join the chorus of that particular world which was your own. And not to conform to one world or another during...
Finding that the reasons given for the dismissal contained in newspaper reports, "contrary to the weight of evidence and hence not valid reasons for the dismissal of Professor Davis," the committee urged his reinstatement...
Fortnight ago one of the country judges sitting in Cook County's Circuit Court (TIME, April 26), Joseph E. Daily of Peoria, ruled that the marriage was valid in such a way as to cause many a Hoosier and Sucker (Illinoisan) couple to raise their eyebrows. Ruled...