Word: validation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present attempt to obtain sufficient valid information to give the Administration substantial material for future consideration of handling commuters, was prompted by an article in a recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin by J. L. Coolidge, master of Lowell House, and by an investigation conducted by the Student Council last year...
Radium Waters. The fad for radio active waters was for a short time valid. Investigators experimented by activating ordinary water. Their experiments took two directions: 1) to dissolve radium salts in water; 2) to expose water to radium emanation. Doctors thought that they had evidence that waters so treated would cure chronic arthritis, gout, neuritis, high blood pressure. The Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association soon found that quacks were selling the waters as cures for "anemia, leukemia, boils, blackheads and pimples." The A. M. A. Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry withdrew approval of devices purporting to make waters...
...another. Last week, addressing young U. S. females at Barnard College, Professor Wilhelm Braun cried: "The charm of Goethe's matchless personality is explained not by the universality of his genius but by the splendid normality of his life. He has given us a pattern that will always be valid: that it is the highest duty and aim of the individual to develop his own individuality and character to the highest extent possible." Clap, clap went the hands of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and other wholehearted Goethians...
...economists and business experts for lower tariffs to rejuvenate trade. Why would not lower duties in the United States allow floods of commodities to pour in from outside nations that are badly in need of markets? If a readjustment in business relations is to take place, it seems a valid argument that manufacturers in the United States, with their higher costs, and more expanded production capacities, should be reluctant to speak for lower duties. In a run-down world where business expansion seems temporarily ended, producers in the United States may wish to keep their domestic markets at least, strangled...
...Baker's opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment and his support of the resubmission of the prohibition question to the states was made clear in an independent report delivered as a member of the Wickersham commission. No true believer in democracy could hod otherwise that the law to be valid and effective must rest on general consent and if that consent be wanting in large and populous sections the law must be changed...