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Word: concepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...layer of considerable thickness. The Earth's atmosphere is playing a considerable role in the production of these radiations." The light seems to be a transformation of sunlight (or starlight) rather than a reflection of sunlight. In any case astronomers, astrophysicists and meteorologists have a new concept of the atmosphere's optical properties to develop and evaluate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vigorous Atmosphere | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Public psychology is interesting. It will result, as sure as you live, in this Congress' going down in history as the one which established the dollar-a-day standard rate for common labor. I warn you that you can never get away from that public concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Work in the Woods | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...system which provides for an indiscriminate ransacking of rooms by undergraduates deserves condemnation from every thinking man. It is irresponsible. It is a public nuisance. It is the precise denial of every customary concept of dignity and privacy. Pragmatically, it becomes futile, once its operation becomes known. Its use is a strong argument for a close unified control over the management of House libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITS OF ASSISTANCE | 2/14/1933 | See Source »

...mystery of modern journalism is the Press's concept of news about itself. Confronted with a story about his own business, the newspaper editor seems to throw his news yardstick out the window. Last week offered a clear example. The Press gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Professional Etiquet | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...events. If we have been taught to judge physical training in American institutions of higher education upon the basis of packed stadiums and over-paid coaches, then we cannot resent the fact that the most harrowing economic depression in history has served to jolt us loose from this superficial concept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Greeks Had a Word For It | 1/27/1933 | See Source »

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