Word: context
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...here. In this way, each man could be limited as to the number of classes he might attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with the Nieman fellows and other graduate students, chronic samplers of Harvard teaching, has shown that no professor has to alter his lecture or make any introductory remarks before addressing an interested outsider...
...book, The Farm Chemurgic. The "urgy" comes from the Greek word ergon - work. Chemurgy was intended to mean "chemistry at work," hence to cover the whole chemical industry. The industry has ignored the word, but its wholehearted adoption by the National Farm Chemurgic Council has given it an agricultural context: the production-and-use of farm products for chemical industry...
...that Japan was about to open an all-out drive for the destruction of the Chungking regime. Since then there have been military actions scattered all over China (see map). Militarily they have not been on a scale worthy of the spokesman's threat. But taken in their context of attrition, both political and economic, they add up to a real danger...
...quiet the fears aroused in the Far East. For India, there was as usual little comfort in anything that Winston Churchill said. Along with the rest of the world, the peoples in Britain's colonies had every right to read Mr. Churchill's global declaration in context with his earlier statement, for home consumption, that Britain intends to keep and rule her own colonies in her own way, after the war (TIME, March 29). The tone of the Prime Minister's home statement left no doubt that he still does not propose to preside over the liquidating...
Exactly what the Vice President meant by "double-cross" was not clear. The context of the speech suggested that he meant there might be a reaction in the U.S. after the war which would make the U.S. fascist and anti-Russian. But even without clear definition of his meaning, it was all too clear from what the Vice President said that the U.S. has no real understanding with Russia on postwar issues...