Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique of the mathematical approach is one easily acquired by the individual highly trained in either mathematics or the physical sciences, but the coordinated assimilation of the more elementary aspects of both is an almost unattainable ideal...
Northern Entente? Until 1918 the Scandinavian countries-Norway, Denmark, Sweden-were neutral. Then, like Belgium, they yielded to idealism, joined the League of Nations. That ideal was shattered when Germany marched into the Rhineland, when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. It was during Mussolini's African adventure that the famed Oslo group got down to business. The Scandinavian countries, headed by Sweden, decided they had better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time...
...three races Navy has taken a slight jump at the start and increased its lead slowly. The boat gets plenty of run, and the crew settles well. The Varsity was timed in 8:54, 6 for one and three-quarter miles under almost ideal conditions against Cornell, while in the Columbia races two weeks before the time for a mile and a half was 9:07 in quite a strong head wind. Against Princeton and Syracuse the time for a mile and three-quarters...
...Radium would offer an ideal source for the external application of short, penetrating rays, but even when several grams of the element are available, the intensity of radiation is so small that the distance between the patient and the applicator can not, with economy, be made sufficiently great to deliver an adequate does to a deep-seated tumor...
...Simpson: "For Queen of England [King Edward had chosen], an itinerant, shopsoiled twice divorcee with two ex-husbands living. . . . She came too far below, she clashed too crudely, with the nation's idea and ideal, dream and myth of feminine royalty. . . . She would not do. The comedown from Queen Mary to Queen Wally was too steep...