Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reverse matter" was first proposed last year as a concept of theoretical physics by Physicist Vladimir Rojansky of Union College. Rojansky suggested that some stars may be made of these reversed atoms...
...With this bleak announcement the British War Office signalized the end of not only the fiercest but also some of the most crucial fighting in World War II-the airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between...
...demonstrates how we have been dependent on four factors for our isolation. "Almost from the beginning it was recognized that our security depended not merely upon relative geographical remoteness, but equally upon the European balance of power, the maintenance of the British Navy, and the existence of a universal concept of international order...
...Parity" is a political concept which holds that the farmer should receive prices for his products which will give him a purchasing power (in terms of other commodities) equal to that which he had in the period 1909-14- one of the most favorable farm-price periods in history. Most economists regard this procedure as similar to passing a law giving brokers the profits they made...
...continued by saying that although she was an interventionist she still thought that "the very concept of war--profiting by others' troubles--is completely immoral. It's the immorality of being tickled to death seeing someone mutilated. After all in the worst Harvard-Yale fray no Harvard rooter gets up and cheers when a Yale man gets kicked in the groin. But that's exactly the attitude war breeds. I'm convinced that we in the United States have a great opportunity to take some of the stigma away from the war by doing something decent at the same time...