Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer, alone rated to be met at the frontier of Germany by the Chancellor. The Italian Premier is also the only one of the four chiefs who can speak English, German, French and Italian. Nobody needed to speak Czech. The Big Four, in accordance with the original concept of 1933, were about to constitute themselves the arbiters of Europe, excluding from their councils Czechoslovakia, the League and the Soviet Union. M. Daladier and Mr. Chamberlain, arriving separately by air, were met by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Despite 75-year-old Publisher William Randolph Hearst, 74-year-old Los Angeles Times Publisher Harry Chandler is the pet antipathy of West Coast liberals. Yet last week, Los Angelenos who wanted to support their own concept of a free press found themselves also supporting rock-ribbed old Harry Chandler...
German metaphysicians of the 18th and early 19th Centuries traced collective behavior to a group mind, a mystical collective ethos. This concept fell in with the German nationalist politics of that time (as it also does with contemporary Naziism) and it survives today in the writings of such eccentrics as Duke University's William McDougall. Most social psychologists have rejected the ethos as a scientifically useless personification, like the patriotic personification of "Uncle Sam" or a child's idea of Jack Frost and the Bogeyman. So far did the reaction swing against the group mind concept that some...
...Concept. As railroads twined themselves across the U. S. during the last century, they engaged in a series of costly freight-rate wars. There was no Interstate Commerce Commission to settle the wrangle, so the roads set up three territories and arranged rate schedules in each. Western territory was everywhere west of the Mississippi; Southern, everywhere east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers; Official, everywhere east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac. In each territory the rates were fixed on the time-honored basis of traffic density. As an agricultural area...
...took as its theme the factors that entered into an executive's choice of certain prices for his company's products. Lion's share of the credit for the first four volumes went to the Institution's president, bald, vigorous Harold G. Moulton. Actually the concept was as much the creation of its Institute of Economics director, tall, distinguished-looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China), Economist Nourse...