Word: validly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Peace Society has no dogma other than that murder and civilization are incompatible. It recognizes that each new generation must make an original analysis of its problems before it can proffer valid solutions. Therefore, H. P. S. has two objectives: (1) study, (2) action. Various study groups inquire into specific phases of war and its cure. When conclusions are reached and the Society votes its approval, H. P. S. becomes a concerted force for the translation of those conclusions into action...
...fourth objection, dealing with the abominable quality of many of the section men in the elementary science courses, is undoubtedly valid not only for men completing their science distribution requirement, but perhaps even more for those whose future progress in science will be greatly aided by a sound understanding of the underlying principles. Bad teaching in this field can be blamed directly on the heads of the departments and through them on University Hall. In biology, physics, and, most brazenly of all, in Mallinckrodt, instructors and assistants are told to be done with their undergraduate teaching as shortly as possible...
...Jewish] ban against Spain was not against the Spanish people but against the evil rulers of Spain in the 15th Century," ruled Poland's Rabbinate. "Therefore the boycott is no longer valid at present, when the Jews are treated like everyone else by the Spanish Government...
...past, officials have countered similar requests with the objection that, since so many of the Union waiters are Freshman, the breakfast hour must end at eight-thirty in order to permit them to attend nine o'clock classes. Doubtless the objection is valid, but it has been used so often that it is becoming a means of preventing further controversy, rather than of a convincing argument. It is difficult to understand why, if there is a large number of Freshman who would use the Union between eighty-thirty and nine, they should not be entitled to as much consideration...
Then the country's highest tribunal changed its mind, consented to review. The ruling handed down last week left Mr. Fox without a leg to stand on. In substance the Court declared that the Fox patents had not been infringed, that they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel...