Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claiming that he had been quoted out of context, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, vigorously denied that he had been teaching Nazi doctrines, as was charged by Representative Edmond J. Donlan...
...which have replaced the traditional graveyard of unrecognizable Faculty photos are the high spots of the volume. These sections, illustrated with well-chosen candid shots of teachers in the fields, and each written by an outstanding Faculty member, serve to place a Harvard education in its social and intellectual context. Professor F. O. Matthiesscu's article on the value of the Humanities in a world at war should make the Album required reading for every American college student and instructor...
Reading these somewhat solemn maxims out of context suggests one reason why later and lesser minds have sometimes been misled into supposing that a good deal of Washington's genius consisted of a somewhat Olympian manner...
...works the most popular were probably those that had an air of the country in their context and his final eight or nine poems, including his two encores, were all of this "homespun" variety...
Just to give you a rough idea of what kind of people they've dragged into the story, we'll start off with John Payne. Now Payne plays an honest-to-gosh heel; he's the "love 'em and leave 'em" Marine again. In any other context he'd be soundly hissed and hooted at; in "Iceland" he looks by contrast like the prime contender for the Florence Nightingale humanity award...