Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the play is a thing of beauty and a living comment on life; in studying the calculus he overlooks that mathematics is a method of expressing the truth, as capable of interpreting the science of physiology as of indicating the proper way to cut a pie. The cramped outlook is a general and common failing, equally characteristic of the student of the arts who protests at a laboratory requirement, and of the scientifically minded whose dreams are of stewing alembics and spectroscopes...
...Experimental Psychology and is involved chiefly with such topics as emotions, sensation, and memory which may be attacked experimentally. This course goes into physiology and biology, showing their relation to the function of mental life. Psychology A, given by Professor Pratt, and open to Freshmen, gives a wider outlook on the total field of psychology. While discussing the subject matter of Psychology 1 to a certain extent, it makes it quite clear that such is only one branch of Psychology, and goes on to treat of motivation, personality, social and abnormal psychology and other topics...
...guarantee at all that Hitler will not attempt to coalesce with Austria and Hungary. In both of these latter countries there is a growing Fascist party and a corresponding decline in the Socialist power, which has until now exercised a moderate and restraining influence coupled with a really international outlook. If the Nazis come to the top, as they seem likely to do, an obvious move would be to link up with other Fascist states. France, of course, would never tolerate any such act, as she conclusively showed in 1931. War would be a very natural result...
Maryland suddenly awoke to a three-day bank moratorium as the result of relentless runs. Outlook was for extension beyond its initial period...
...Protestant world (TIME, Nov. 28), urges that Christianity be rooted in foreign soils. But Missionary Jones talked with Dr. Hu Shih, poet, philosopher, agnostic leader of China's "renaissance," who told him: "China has nothing worth preserving. . . . We must make a clean sweep and adopt Western culture and outlook." Says Dr. Jones: "I gasped...