Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sexuality from birth and responded to parental fondling. His principal hypothesis held that most dreams were explainable by suppressed sexual urges; so that when young men told him of dreams in which they saw their fathers dead and young girls reported similar dreams about their mothers, he formulated his concept of the Oedipus Complex,* which holds that all youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never...
...position of an electron, that the more exactly we determine the speed of electrons in an atom the less certain we can be of the position of the electrons in an atom. Thus, we can never say precisely what is Cause or what is Effect. The Heisenberg concept of uncertainty is only six years old. Einstein relativity is only 28 years old. Therefore theorists have been busy applying them to comprehension of the atom. But last week Professor Bohr paused to show how they must apply to everyday existence, where an inch is an inch and a gallon...
...illiterate Ministry to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust." Beautiful as this expression may be, it is foul with the church-ridden egocentricity of church-ridden men. For Harvard College, and for American education, there has grown a larger purpose, consonant with the modern concepts of life, perhaps more cynical than that of the Puritans, but one which has already proved more fruitful of human happiness. It is the greater, modern concept which would have Everyman performing his allotted tasks, deriving from life share of earthly enjoyment in due measure...
Curious. Their nervousness passed after the pioneer autogiro, in response to insistent invitations, vis ited every one of Iowa's 99 county seat towns (and many another) giving Iowa and lowans a new concept of aviation...
...into distinction between the practical training of the professional school and the liberal functions of the college from which the comprehensive examination system has been drawn. While it is desirable that the graduate of the law school should possess an accurate picture of his field as a whole, the concept of rigorous training must suffer through a shifting of third year emphasis from the substantive law of the courses to a review of past work. The application of comprehensive examinations to the more rapid tempo of law school instruction cannot be satisfactory without more fundamental revisions than the present decision...