Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they cannot support the protective policy of the United States and condemn similar measures in Europe. Adam Smith, one of the greatest advocates of free trade, said that restrictions on trade were perfectly justifiable if in retaliation. But the evils which this measure will bring really overcome any abstract ideas of justice that it may have in its support...
...earth and am one with the elemental things, the primal things. It is as though my body were filled with life. My body sings and I listen and I try to translate that music into movement." Wigman audiences received her with shouts of ecstasy, apparently found deep, abstract meaning in her lunging, prancing, posturing and whirling, did not mind her looking middle-aged and having dowdy costumes. The uninitiated could appreciate her strength and vitality, her perfect muscular control...
...talk broadcast from station WEAF Professor E. V. Huntington '95, of the mathematics department, hurling a mild thunderbolt into the camp of those who scoff at the numerical sciences as cold and unaesthetic, extolled the modishness and beauty of figures in the abstract...
Theoretically, the numerical reapportionment to a score of states of seats in Congress is the most important consideration. The abstract problem of selecting the grouping of districts comprising 250,000 persons each is bad enough. The unfortunate quality of the men controlling state politics presents as actual and certainly a more difficult obstacle. Since Massachusetts over a century ago instituted the general practice of gerrymandering, a strategic system whereby the party in office arranges the sections in such a manner that the voting power results in abnormal splits which always favors its own candidates, the thing has become a habit...
...President did not propose any new or concrete scheme of Federal relief to this Commission. He reverted to the same abstract principles he set up last year: 1) State co-operation for public works; 2) development of national industries; 3) new Federal construction. He praised local efforts to supply jobs in Illinois, Detroit, New York (see below), wound up with this declaration: "As a nation we must prevent hunger and cold to those of our citizens who are in honest difficulties." In Boston the American Federation of Labor concluded its soth convention, at which Unemployment was topmost in the minds...