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Word: discussable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London the U.S. delegates will meet with those of Great Britain and the refugee governments. They will discuss methods of helping devastated countries to restock books and scientific apparatus; how to give U.S. university training to selected students from those countries. They will also consider forming "as soon as practicable, a United Nations organization for educational and cultural reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lady & Gentlemen | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...first lecture will deal with "Moral Faith and Moral Criticism." The following week, on Friday, April 21, Professor Edman will discuss "Religious and Philosophical Imagination." The final lecture on Friday, April 28, will be concerned with "Philosophy in the Context of the Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EDMAN'S LECTURES LISTED FOR APRIL | 4/7/1944 | See Source »

...simple mathematical calculation in each case gives the right answer. The Liebers go on to discuss more complicated questions, such as the relation of mathematical philosophers to practical inventors. For example, practical Marconi had to get the idea that a wireless message might be sent before he could figure how to do it. He got the idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mathematics for Mits | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...South America) made him a front-rank political geographer-as opposed to geopolitical writers-was a ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there helped fix European boundaries. A reporter asked if Dr. Bowman's presence meant that boundaries were to be discussed in London. Replied the President: they might discuss bananas, and Dr. Bowman knows where bananas grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Shapiro was assigned to Moscow long before the war and is well qualified to discuss Russian relations with America the military and political sides of the and the rest of the world, presenting both question. 'After the speech there will be a question period. This forum is open to the public; doors open at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. P. Moscow Reporter To Lecture on Russia | 3/24/1944 | See Source »

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