Word: concept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed the policy is so ideal in concept that it could stand more careful enforcement. Every year fifteen hundred men qualify scholastically for admission, and approximately a thousand are taken in. The grave responsibility attached to denying five hundred men a Harvard education appears at times to be taken too lightly, and with insufficient basis for discrimination...
Miss Booth has subordinated the plot to her concept of society and her brilliant lines, yet it contrives to be moving in spots. Mary Haines, happily married, learns of her husband's infidelity from a manicurist, but too many of her friends have their claws polished by the same girl. The story is out; it is enlarged and twisted until the unwilling wife fices to Reno, letting her husband marry Crystal, form the perfume counter at Saks. For two years she lives with her children in seclusion, brushing up on technique. Then one day Little Mary comes home from visiting...
...that Physics is in a bad dilemma at present, with one leg in the Field Theory and the other buried in Quanta. Investigation into particles of matter leads from descriptions of events in time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face...
...Living Church (High-Church Episcopal) : "We should like to know just what concept of religious liberty is held by Mr. Whalen [president of the Fair]. ... It strikes us as a peculiar one, to say the least...
...Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum because they...