Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talk. But the misuse of the English language so prevalent on every college campus indicates, deeper down, a state of laxity reigning over almost every branch of conduct. Men whose conversation is deficient either in grammar or in taste not only offend their hearens but reveal themselves incapable of verbal self-control...
...substitute for the reading of the classics, and it is the glory of his criticism that he kept it ever an open door to the knowledge of literary masterpieces at first hand. He was a master of trenchant phraseology, but he never permitted epigram to degenerate into verbal trickery. Keenly satirical, he was in tolerant only of hypocrisy and the wealth of kindliness that lay behind the satire made him able to rebuke without bitterness. There was in his genius something of that universality which marks the truly constructive scholar. He made no pretense to a technical knowledge...
...statement of the thirty-one who pledge their support to Senator Harding the speedy entrance of the United States into the "association of free nations of the world" is assured beyond the possibility of rejection. Advocates of the Wilson league "as' is," inflexible in their obstinate insistence upon the verbal inspiration of its author, have signed their own death warrant. The leaders of that group whose unflagging efforts made a world covenant-possible, the League to Enforce Peace, together with leaders of the most progressive and broad-minded element in the Republican party, foreseeing the futility of attempting to force...
...reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statute which usually accomplishes this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In other words, the public weal supersedes all law." The Supreme Court reasoned in no such way. If it had, it would have said in effect, that this is a government of men and not of laws. For in every case, the opinion of the judge as to what...
...reasoned substantially as follows: the purpose of law is the furtherance of the public welfare; when, therefore, a statue which usually accomplished this end fails to react to the benefit of the public in a particular case, the fundamental purpose of the law should be considered above its mere verbal provisions. In a word, the public weal supersedes...