Word: abstractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition a belief that Mr. Hoover's personal prestige is not of a kind which would stand up well in competition with the intimate personal quality of Gov. Smith's popularity. Mr. Hoover's virtues suggest the clean precision of the scientific man. They are abstract and intellectualized. He has not the flair of a man like Vice President Dawes for heating the blood, and he does not convey that sense of apostolic authority which surrounds Mr. Hughes...
Forbidden Roads. This was brought from Spain and played by able U. S. actors; its purpose to elucidate, for sly and shifty playgoers, that shining abstract, Honor...
...deep was the belief of Dean Kent in the imparting of the abstract virtues through instruction that he sent cards to his colleagues in several schools of the University, requesting that they grade themselves with regard to their emphasis on Honesty, Chastity, Sincerity, Healthfulness, Economy, Service, Religiousness, Dependability, Scholarliness and High-mindedness...
...spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where a simple "What of it?" would suffice, there is always that much more amusement for the occupants of the ringside seats...
...course will deal with the structural and functional aspects of business. This will be accomplished by bringing the student in contact with certain cases in which the financial problems that underlie the business system are involved. The course will have a legal value, however, since it will abstract the accounting and financial from regular business and law cases. Only such aspects of these problems as are of most service to law students in practice will be considred...