Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Dean Pound there gradually evolved a whole new concept of the law. Formerly, the law was treated as an isolated field of study. Dean Pound realized that this view left law out of touch with life, and hence he insisted that the law be taught in forms of its relationship with other fields of human endeavor. Thus the law must be thought of as a positive factor in the political and sociological structure of civilization...
...poet began his talk by discussing the here concept in many of its different forms. "Quixote," he concluded, "lives in his own right beyond the words of Cervantes, continuing to classic new stories within the imagination of the reader. Like Little Abner, he outlives the imagination of his creation. He makes the Christian tradition immortal in himself as no strictly moral fictional character could...
...program is a well integrated, closely knit unit. Taken as a whole it would work for the best interest of that amorphous character, the consumer. It would promote that ubiquitous concept, the public good. If it is pressured into oblivion, even more drastic measures may be required at some date in the not too far distant future...
This will be the fortieth meeting of these teams, although they first played in the spring of 1877. Competition was suspended during both World Wars and for eight years from 1926 to 1934 when the concept of friendly rivalry was strained by the professional manner in which Fritz Crisler's "phenomenals" disported themselves on the gridiron...
...hope of getting a book, he noticed his two unsold tickets lying on the dresser. As he slow-motioned out of bed, it occurred to him drowsily that for every football game won there was a football game lost. As he combed his hair, he associated this concept with an essay he had read called "Compensation." Compensation or no compensation, he rebutted, dusting out his mailbox, Vag for one, has an insatiable desire for victory and a powerful distaste for defeat...