Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More utilitarian, no less impressive, but at present more nebulous, was a project announced last week by a New York Board of Trade committee chairmanned by William T. Donnelly, consulting engineer. Chairman Donnelly's proposal not only envisions Manhattan as the gateway to the nation, but, richer in concept than previous plans, seeks to symbolize the U. S. as a great interfusion of races, nations, peoples, whose civilization has been and is based on commerce. His plan proposes as an appropriate* national monument a great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water...
This was probably the greatest work of Physicist Faraday. Greatest contribution of Metaphysician Faraday was his concept that all physical phenomena are interrelated. Of this, he wrote in his diary...
...concept of Matter preceded his concept of Space. Euclid's geometry was purely concerned with the relative position of concrete bodies, without reference to any continuum through which they moved. Not until Descartes (1596-1650) invented analytical geometry was absolute, continuous Space conceived...
...problem of the graduating armles is not solved. The colleges are still somewhat confused in their efforts, and even the best academic "education" coupled with the most discerning and intelligent placement work may still fall short of giving the undergraduate any real concept of what the affair of living and making a living involves. But the colleges are undoubtedly trying hard, and if above the whole of their effort there hovers the shadow of institutionalization of conscious 'teaching" rather than of natural learning, it is no darker than the similar shadow above all our efforts at managing the life which...
...nature of this proposed tribunal was clearer when Mr. Baruch added: "No repressive, inquisitorial, mediocre bureau will answer; we must have a new concept for this purpose, a tribunal vested, like the Supreme Court, with so much prestige and dignity that our greatest business leaders will be glad to divest themselves of any personal interest in business and there serve. . . . Its deliberations should be in the open and should be wholly scientific...