Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day at Lüneberg Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, most anti-Christian Nazi bigwig, flatly and loudly restated the crux of the holy war: "National Socialism has won the right to take the education of German youth for all eternity under its control...
...conference did, as to the causes of what they like to call as "unwarranted exodus" on the part of college graduates in search of jobs. This movement is not caused by "wanderlust," "higher pay elsewhere," "the traditional conservatism of New England," or other irrelevant facts. The crux of the situation is that no matter how large a place New England naturally occupies in our sentiments and affections, it is only a very small part of the industrial and intellectual life of the country...
...many lecturers on the novel have endeavored to put across in a month's time, is set forth in TIME so concisely and yet so fully that the Woolf enthusiast is given at once the whole essence of Woolfism. And to crown the whole evaluation TIME takes the crux of Woolfism for its cover caption: "It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back on the microscopic detail of Naturalism, and like the French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME...
...crux of the new reform lies in the setting up of House Athletic Secretaries in each of the seven Houses and in Dudley Hall. These secretaries, together with one Master chosen by the House Masters as a body, the Director of Athletics, and the Intra-Mural Athletic Director will form an Inter-House Athletic Council. It is significant that the House Athletic Secretaries are to be Seniors in their respective Houses, that they are to be paid for their services, and that they are to have two paid assistant secretaries out of the Junior Class. The provision for a competition...
...notoriously contradictory. Currently in the Illinois Law Review a smart young Louisiana State University law professor named Thomas A. Cowan licks his legal chops in a fancifully-written article which shows just how loose has been the courts' usage of this Constututional phrase, "commerce . . . among the several States." Crux of Lawyer Cowan's thesis is that the U. S. Supreme Court has been willing to expand the meaning of "interstate commerce" when a law involves "morals,"* but has narrowly circumscribed Congress' power where business and industry were concerned. With many an obscure legal phrase and many...