Word: concepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATURE OF THE WORLD and OF MAN-By 16 members of the Faculty of the University of Chicago-University of Chicago Press ($4). For a knowledgeable concept of the cosmos...
...like John Livingston Lowes whose "Convention and Revolt in Modern Poetry" is so grand an achievement as to take its place in the rank of masterpieces of literary criticism, whose "Two figures of Earth" in a recent number of the Yale Review is stimulating in the vastness of its concept, in the directness of its approach. He spends classroom hours expounding the benefits to be derived from an accurate appreciation of Gray's use of he comma. The third class embraces such men as Bliss Perry, formerly editor of the "Atlantic", who in his fear of being less the scholar...
...body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing out on healthy humans the whole armamentarium of drugs, the homeopaths worked out a, vast array of drugs specific for practically every disease symptom. The regular school of medicine rejects the law of similars, but approximates it by the current concept of immunities. Vaccines give the symptoms of a disease-mildly. President of the Institute of Homeopathy is Arthur Whitaker Belting, of Trenton, N. J., and the president-elect is G. Harlan Wells of Elkins, Md. Osteopathy. Another group groping for methods healing to mankind's ailments are the asteopaths...
...invited her to join the exhibitions of the Impressionists and she accepted with enthusiasm. Her style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures...
...Though the Occidental concept of Satan belongs to the postexilic period of Hebrew development and has no exact Indian counterpart, the word is here employed as the nearest translation of Kali (The Black), dread Indian devourer, cruel goddess of destruction and death. **Doubtless Health Officer Bundesen was responsible only indirectly. It is the usual thing for officials to get their publicity sheets written by underpaid newspaper reporters, the majority of whom are constantly on the lookout for "outside work" of any kind to fatten their slender purses...