Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth seeker: doubt. One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Lamb observed that credulity was the child's strength but the adult's weakness. That observation is even more valid today, when shoddy or ignorant research is used to lend legitimacy to the most extravagant tenets of the psychic movement...
...still a valid basis for treating persons differently under the law? Yes, said a unanimous Utah Supreme Court. "We realize that as a court made up of men there is a possibility of masculine bias," conceded Justice J. Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement...
...accepting for the moment that something has lured you into Keep Your Pantheon, a semi-valid question remains of what you will see. No one, at least, is under any obligation to take the thing seriously, so the first thing to do is thank God that this is not last year, and that a plot, whatever its faults, exists this year, which is more than could be said for last year's Bewitched Bayou. There is not now and never has been any danger of any Pudding script being printed in an anthology of great plays or musicals...
Eugene Welljamsdorf'73, a firstyear Med student, said two weeks ago that the drop in the boards owed partly to the advent of pass/fail grading, but he added that the faculty's despair over the test scores is not valid...
...question of house sex ratios is complex, with valid arguments on both sides. This is one reason why the original January vote, which abolished the ratios, was very close (12-10). At that time, the committee--whose students had accrued one year's experience in housing matters--spent an hour debating the issue before taking any vote...