Word: concept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conquer with all speed his native Baltic lands as well as the Ukraine, this Nazi program being the famed "Rosenberg Plan." The Balt is a specialist not only in journalism and foreign affairs but also in religion. He regards Christianity with suspicion but feels that the Son-of-God concept has its points. Last week Dr. Rosenberg addressed himself to Germans who believe that Adolf Hitler is the Son of God but are scoffed at by some of their friends...
...live, or where you have frittered away the last night of the Christmas recess on your way back from Atlanta--Oak Park-Kalamazoo-Denver. You are in your room and you are unpacking your bags. You see a book entitled "Integral Functions of the Complex Variable"--or, "The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth Century Poetry". A pang of scholastic remorse seizes you. Will you begin here and now to study it? Not if the Vagabond's well-considered plans are given a chance to help...
...spent all of the time of his last sojourn in America in the company of Mr. Roosevelt, as a scientifically inclined psychologist, he could not have justified his sweeping statement. As is so often the case with European scientists and "observers," the American mentality, the American concept and interpretation of democracy, and the true causes on which these are based, are foreign to Dr. .lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes, Indians and we whites have been molded by the same American environment. He accuses Mr. Roosevelt...
...week before the 61-year-old Fish had read the list of Grant's amateurish Cabinet selections with alarm, noting that one choice was plainly illegal, others were determined by the President's desire to aid his old friends from Galena, Ill., all by a naive concept of the President's responsibilities...
...university tradition meant to the Anglo-Saxon world of the seventeenth century. Harvard's founders insisted on the "collegiate way of living," thus recognizing the importance of student life. They knew the educational values which arise from the daily intercourse between individual students and between student and tutor. Their concept of professional training was, to be sure, largely cast in terms of the ministry, but they envisaged also training in the law and medicine. The liberal arts educational tradition they transplanted in toto from the colleges which they had left behind. And finally, their zeal for the cultivation of learning...