Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With all possible clearness and emphasis, I wish to say that Germany, in no way whatsoever and in no circumstances, thinks of stopping her payments to private individuals, payments based on civil law. Among the payments so assured in any case belong those for service of interest and capital of the Young Plan loan, as well as the Dawes Plan loan...
...finds to be dominated by "studies", as for instance physics, and mathematics, without recognition of the extent to which these subjects cross-fertilize and interpenetrate each other in their higher reaches. The student in the elementary and secondary grades learns by rote the body of material supposed to belong to each of these separate subjects. Long afterwards, or not all, there is revealed to him the exciting implications of one subject for another...
...cardboard picture of ancient wall masses. Robert Edmond Jones, Lee Simonson or Norman Bel Geddes could better have done it. [Norman Bel Geddes is designing several theatres for the fair.] They are specialists in spectacle. But the architecture for the Fair is only bad theatre where theatre does not belong. We want genuineness in our architecture-the genuine expression of American life...
...from Eton or Harrow means as much as being an Oxford or a Cambridge graduate. If in this country the secondary schools would also take upon themselves the task of fitting their students for life as well as for college, a great number of men who really do not belong in college would not be there now, and the intellectual standards of the university could adapt themselves to the capacities of the more intelligent students...
These organs all belong to the vegetative or autonomic (sympathetic plus parasympathetic) nervous system which, so far as life itself goes, is more important than the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). The central system controls the body's skeletal movements. When a person throws out his arms as he is about to fall, his brain is working. The muscles involved are striped muscles. (A steak is a slice of striped muscle.) When his stomach churns, smooth muscle is working. (Sausage casing is smooth muscle.) The heart is peculiar in this respect. Its muscle is half way between...