Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant to Secretary of War Baker, Walter Lippmann was named secretary of an organization called The Inquiry, under Col. House. The Inquiry's purpose was to ascertain and formulate the peace aims and claims of all parties to the War. So well did Secretary Lippmann do his job?his abstract ideas filtered through to President Wilson's speeches?that he was sent overseas as a captain of military intelligence. There he met and worked with Editor Frank Irving Cobb? of the World. At the Peace Conference, Lippmann's memoranda became in the U. S. delegation the authoritative commentary on Wilson...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
...Flexner's Institute may be able to provide an ideal atmosphere for genuine scholarship. Perhaps it will become a place to which college professors can return at intervals for "recreative" study. But such an exclusively intellectual community runs the danger of becoming absorbed in its own abstract ratiocinations. If the Institute can attract great teachers, however, their presence will keep it from being nothing more than a society for Bibliolatry...
...group most capable to hold opinions on the success or failure of Harvard as an educational institution. The CRIMSON, in this instance, chooses to define education not only as the point of view accumulated from the lecture platform, tutorial system, and Widener library, but as the combination of everything, abstract or concrete, which has happened to the individual members of the Class of 1931 during their four years of residence...
Turning to Cezanne for strength in the analysis of volume and mass, he became one of the exponents of the cubist school. Since 1919 he has vacillated between the pictorial and the abstract, all his work being characterized by, a boundless energy and imagination. The exhibition will continue until Friday, February...