Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European Protestants spend too much time thinking about God and Scripture, not enough in helping their neighbor. ¶U.S. Protestants are inclined to be simple-minded do-gooders with a busy-bee, "social-worker" concept of religion that comes perilously close to the Pelagian heresy...
...proving to the world that democracy works-in all kinds of wind and weather. For it was important for the world to know that the nation which had conceived the Marshall Plan and created the Berlin airlift could change its own leadership at home without altering its concept of freedom or changing its will for peace...
...concept in graduate student housing will be featured in the proposed graduate center, scheduled to be completed on Jarvis Court, north of the Law School...
...addition, each student is constantly scrutinized by the authorities in command for evidence of insufficient leadership potential. This concept is probably the most basic factor in governing the West Point mode of life, for character training and development of leadership among its students is the prime end of the Academy...
...closely packed as a novel in itself. Finally, there is a prologue and an epilogue, laid in 1944 and 1945, explaining that the three books are a manuscript left by a great American, a former Supreme Court Justice, Orville Windom (obviously modeled on Oliver Wendell Holmes), as both his concept of family history and his testament of the American heritage...