Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forest for the dandelions, like the tiger-lilies that wilt away their stamen in anti-war meetings, like the parlor pussies mewing about the third international in the upper rooms of Adams House, to seek peace thusly in the modern saturnalia of all the other more valid causes of war, high tariffs, monetary friction, Father Coughlins, economic nationalism, and so on is nothing more than playing cat's cradle on a railroad crossing...
...argument that we can spend our way out of economic stagnation be valid, and if it is true that relief outlays such as this can be paid for when happy days return, it behooves New England communities to permit their destitute to be cared for by a method that will permit payment of the debt to be a national burden. We do not lose sight of the fact that one part of the country can not recover separately from the whole. Nor should sectional prejudice be raised at any time. But if the purchasing power of the unemployed...
...last week Professor Lloyd Derr Felton of Harvard went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, where once he studied and taught, to say that a pneumonia vaccine which he invented seemed to be valid. He had given the vaccine to 3,000 people, including himself. Not one had developed pneumonia, although in the ordinary course of life ten or a dozen of them should have contracted the disease...
...some of the men in Science that the concentrator in that field, because of the amount of work he must do in his field in order securely to grasp his subject, should not be required to have a reading knowledge of more than one language. The differentiation is undoubtedly valid in some branches of Science and the logical solution is to require a useful reading knowledge of one language to be obtained in either school or college and allow the individual departments to waive the requirement of a second language if they so desire...
...being advocated by Oklahoma's Governor Marland, seemed out as far as Washington was concerned. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, who fell over himself last year declining the honor of sponsoring the Administration's oil measure, introduced a joint resolution to provide the Government with a valid basis for reinforcing State proration laws at State lines. But what the President really wants is the power to 1) fix production quotas by States, 2) regulate interstate oil traffic and, if these fail, 3) to step into any oil State and set quotas for individual wells...