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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After mentioning briefly other common theories of history, he outlined the main tenets of dialectic materialism, assorting that under Marxist methods of scientific inquiry, "man's eventual complete understanding of nature is assured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture by Eisler Overflows Hall; No Jokes This Time | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

Eisler declared that until scientific socialism becomes world-wide, men will not be free from "the main, inescapable defect of capitalism, the crises of over-production," which, he said, have been responsible for great depressions in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lecture by Eisler Overflows Hall; No Jokes This Time | 2/23/1949 | See Source »

...more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death of a Salesman confers a bifocal sense of simultaneously making you see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Groskamp's main points: 1) High Priest Caiaphas violated several Jewish legal procedures in his conduct of the trial; 2) the Jews rejected Jesus as messiah because he was no national liberator. Israel's present rebirth without the help of a messiah proves that the messiah did not have to be a national liberator, Groskamp contends, hence Jesus' rejection on those grounds was an error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Motion for Rehearing | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...tables are located on the second floor of the Union, directly over the main entrance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Billiard Sharks To Take Cue Today | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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