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Word: conceptions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just so long as a slice of bread is the underpinning for their repasts. Though they appreciate the free publicity provided by Pan Am's sandwich crusade, they intend to fight any move to make sandwiches more Spartan. Said a Swissair spokesman: "Every man is entitled to his concept of a sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Not by Bread Alone | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

...addition to granting the University permission to build the House, the permit names certain restrictions, not yet revealed, with which the construction of the building must comply. The restrictions should not, however, alter the present concept of the structure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Board of Appeals Votes To Grant Permit for Quincy House | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...Committee on General Education concerning mathematical preparation implies that Harvard should also require no specific mathematics requirement for graduation. This closed door policy evoked by the Committee is indeed unfortunate in modern times when an understanding of the present goals of science is intimately tied up with the powerful concept of the calculus--discovered by Newton over 300 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Strengthen the Sciences | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...Plato are of considerable relevance today even though they are not included in the work of modern theorists, this is not the case in the natural sciences. Modern quantum theory contains a great deal of the older work of Newton, Laplace, Poisson, Hamilton, Jacobi, and Bohr. Indeed, a present concept of the physical truth is but a modification, reforming, and improvement of older ideas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Strengthen the Sciences | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...Conant's concept of the ideal school is not an attempt to segregate students according to ability. All students would share the same homerooms and lunch hours, and would be allowed to take some courses in an upper or lower level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Suggests Curriculum Plan For High Schools | 4/15/1958 | See Source »

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