Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Booth traced the history of the Jows, and development of thought about its interpretation from the Middle Ages to the present day. He stated that "we should reject any 'Old Testament' concept of authority which binds our minds...
...soundest feature of the report is the statement in unequivocal terms of a social concept that has been up to this time a fundamental part of our democratic social order, but has escaped general notice in the emphasis on other phases of our political and economic problems. That principle is is that one of the functions of government is to look after the health of its citizens. It is obvious, when one stops to think of the contagious diseases--typhoid fever, dyptheria, and the like--which twenty years ago held the population in their grip, and which now are rare...
Three years ago our tutor guilelessly slipped three cards into the hands of the attendant. Three books he wanted. In time, which we hestitate to define in its Widenerian concept, he was informed that there was no report of them. Then the Widener Beast sat up on its hind legs, smoothed its scales, and smilingly queried, "May we trace the books and send you a card?" The spider could no better entice the fly. "Please," our tutor answered. Every month now he returns to the lair with the same three cards and receives the same benign reply. But the Beast...
Dick Harlow hates to see time wasted in practice, and his concept of wasting time doesn't allow much latitude. Every body on the squad realizes that...
...hours of the ten-day observance, was a Day of Atonement, the only one of the year on which Mosaic law prescribes abstention from food and drink. Not comparable to any Christian celebration, Yom Kippur meant prostrations for the devout, an effort at self-purification based upon the concept that God was casting up for the year his accounts of the sins and the good work of His children. In Jewish synagogs at sundown, Yom Kippur ended with sermons and prayers by robed rabbis, and the blowing of the shofar by the most pious members of each congregation. Yom Kippur...