Word: concept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admired his style, the exasperated middle class outraged at too much muddling-these scarcely loomed big enough to conquer Mr. Chamberlain's hostility, the lack of confidence of the people. Bigger news was that last week's staggering events clarified in a stroke Churchill's concept of the Empire, made understandable what had been puzzling and contradictory about...
With this concept of rule the philosophy of Nazi Germany was despicable to him: "Germany," he said, "is a place where a small band of ferocious men rose from the depths to dictatorship, there to take away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power...
...high-school teachers (Mabel Goddard, Louise Schafer Camp, Eva Hanks Lycan and Helen Louise Cohen Stockwell) published four graduated textbooks called American English.* Main thesis of Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell is that there are three kinds of American English, each acceptable in its place. They illustrated this concept by the following variations on the theme, "Mother is not feeling well today": 1) dignified American English for great occasions: "Mother is ill and has retired"; 2) sack-suit American English: "Mother is sick and has gone to bed"; 3) football-field American English: "Mother is on the blink...
Anyone who has ever studied biology must realize that peace is a purely human concept, and that nature is rather partial to the idea of struggle and competition, and that it is doubtful whether Congressman Ludlow can reverse this state of things by a Constitutional amendment, or that our college students help matters much by refusing to join the R.O.T.C...
Some geneticists feel that Morgan overemphasized the independent action ot single genes. But they do not deny that genes exist. The Moscow students denied it flatly, on the ground that "the concept of the gene contradicts dialectical materialism." They asserted that in good Russian eyes "formal genetics" or "Mendelianism-Morganism" should be as outmoded as the myth that the world is supported on the backs of whales and tortoises...