Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concept of a combined drive is basically a sound one. Although the Council part of the combined drive is poorly handled, this should not prevent students from giving the emphasized charities the support these causes deserve...
Lilienthal has made a positive contribution to the concept of civil service by leaving private life when he was trained and experienced to devote his most vigorous years to government service. He has stuck through a series of violent and unjustified personal attacks to uphold his thesis that trained men in their prime belong in government work. He proved this thesis at the cost of his privacy and his personal happiness...
...shadowed him everywhere he went. He persuaded the head of a-small fishery to take him out on the lake in the only rowboat in sight. Smith assumed that the guards, who had of course followed him, would wait at the shore. But he had underestimated "the Oriental concept .of hospitality" which he encountered in Russia. Related Smith last week in My Three Years in Moscow, which is running serially in the New York Times and the Satevepost...
There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...
...miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever, met with derision, his mind snapped...