Word: validity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thorny question: just what are we fighting for? No one searches any harder for the answer than the man who is doing the fighting. But here is most apparent the characteristic U.S. lack of political education, the failure of both Government and Army to define for the fighting men valid political objectives. Both the German and Russian armies have taught their soldiers better, whatever the lesson...
...happened to his red and blue stamps, began to look suspiciously at airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3, wondered if they should be spent at once on shoes -which will hereafter be rationed at less than two pairs a year. OPA hurriedly promised that current shoe stamps would remain valid...
...Curie). It discharges an obligation to the Louis Bromfield original by drawing a fine distinction between the robber barons of the '90s, who robbed each other, and the Wall Street wolves of the '30s, who robbed widows and orphans. Another distinction that may strike audiences as more valid is that the barons (most of them) ended up in mansions on Fifth Avenue and the wolves (some of them) in Sing Sing cells...
...overseas-duty amendment to the bill creating the women's reserve. (WACs have long been overseas.) Whenever Navy brass hats appeared asking for WAVES overseas, Senator Walsh demurred, even after the House passed such a bill twice. By last week not even Dave Walsh could offer any valid reason for keeping all of the 77,000 WAVES, 19,000 Women Marines, and 9,000 SPARS from completely safe spots overseas. Admiral Nimitz wrote that he could send 332 officers and 4,906 enlisted men from Hawaii to sea if he had that many WAVES to replace them; furthermore, barracks...
...take the sacrament again, will forgive me." Commented Rector Jones: "Fully admitting the irregularity, which to many will seem a weak word, of a layman's celebrating the Holy Communion, and other elements in the service almost as startling, I can but believe that the sacrament was as valid in the sight of God as it would have been if regularly held in one of our largest cathedrals...