Word: broader
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engaged in science are not able to gather together the loose ends of scientific data into logical and significant theory. The majority of scientists have no very far sighted vision of a broader, more embracing field than their own limited specialty. It requires far more than average intellect to comprehend the complexities of natural phenomena and to be able to build up the scattered fragments of knowledge into a coherent structure. Such capacities of thought were necessary in transiting the obscure and difficult geologic evidence of the age of the earth into terms of millions of years. The figure arrived...
...lately been a tendency to belittle and criticize this painstaking method of scientists, who spend their lives investigating the habits of a Paleozoic jelly fish or some other equally narrow subject. Naturally this attention to apparently picayune detail has very little importance per se, but in relation to the broader aspects of science which deal in theories and hypotheses it is invaluable. If science did not have this foundation of minute and detailed facts, it would pass over into the realm of romance where the imagination is uncontrolled...
...merits of this plan are superior to the older method. With every state offering candidates, a competition will be stimulated which will assure a high grade, representative group at Oxford and the choice of any foreign university for the student in his third year makes possible a broader and more cultural education than heretofore...
...Germany, Holland, Austria. Germany has formed special clubs for pedigreed boxers and their owners. Like the mastiff which they resemble, they are terrific fighters, make good watchdogs. They are affectionate, easy to train. A full grown boxer is about the height of a Doberman Pinscher but has a much broader body, sturdier legs...
...society ever recovers from its fetish of a college education, the secondary schools may be relieved of some of the burden of cramming for college boards and may be able to evolve a broader and more elastic system of education whereby students of mediocre ability can be given a more satisfactory fitting for the world without loss of social prestige...