Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of films designed to show the primary racial divisions of the human species and the criteria of race, by "close-ups" and animated, cartoons expressed simply enough so that the school children will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...
...believe in companionate marriage; maybe that is because I am single myself, and think married life is too interesting, but you young people will come back to the old fashioned idea of marriage, and see that it is necessary to take it seriously...
...William, Emerson Ritter, University of California zoologist and president of Science Service, declared: "When the idea of emergence is applied to racial as well as to individual development, there is left no trace of doubt about the adequacy of the creative power of the natural order to produce man, not only with all his physical, but with all his spiritual attributes...
Popularly, consolidation and merger are synonymous with each other and with amalgamation, combination and absorption. They all represent the idea of fusion of property, ownership or management of business concerns...
...idea in action last week...