Word: abstractionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What might have been is an abstraction
> To Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every...
He picked up an old Haig and Haig bottle and sniffed at it absent mindedly. A rude knock on the door shattered his abstraction. He wheeled around to come face-to-face with a brand new cherub of about 17, who set down the bag he was carrying and looked...
-Parity is an abstraction that the Department of Agriculture computes every month on the basis of information it gets from 20,000 reporters: 1) the current prices of every major farm crop; 2) the costs of 174 things the farmer buys -food, clothing, furnishings, seed, feed, machinery, fertilizer. The figures...
This somewhat vague abstraction was the closest any Christian leader came last week to defining the missing faith without which victory cannot be won by the United Nations. It was easier to say what that faith was not. It was not a byproduct of social reorganization, nor could it spring...