Word: detachedness
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The World Stuff. Huxley flatly rejects the philosophic dualism which divides truth into two kinds, scientific and revealed. He declares that the world, living and lifeless, mental and physical, is composed of one stuff. "In reproduction there is no moment at which life enters . . . the offspring is merely a detached...
To insure a steady supply of talented young men, every high-school student should be drafted and sent for a year of detached duty at college, according to Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology.
This would be long enough to show the young man's potentialities the professor felt. His success there acceptance by a medical school or other institution of advanced training, would allow the young man to continue his detached duty while lack of success would return him to active duty in...
Professor Hisaw has long advocated drafting all men and assigning them on detached duty to the particular work where they would be most useful. "If this program is applied to young men who have proceeded far enough to know where they are going, if could be used wisely for the...
When Adolf Hitler was still a mousy plotter, Gerd von Rundstedt was already one of the Reich's first soldiers. Impersonally affable, yet detached and consciously superior, he was not a man to let other officers call him by his first name or use the familiar Du. He was...