Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern anthropology overlaps a number of sciences-anatomy, pediatrics, sociology, psychology, ethnology, paleontology. Few living men in this vast field have plowed over all of it. The venerable Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough) surveyed the realm of savage culture. Sir Arthur Keith is an authority on the forerunners of Homo sapiens, Malinowski on primitive sex customs, Levy-Bruhl on primitive mentality. Harvard's Hooton, a thorough student of African archeology and a brilliant commentator of human evolution, is first and foremost an anthropometrist-a man with a pair of calipers and a battery of tabulating machines. The Smithsonian...
Kings' fortunes vanish into the realm of the mysterious because what a King saves up and bequeaths to his heirs is subject to no probate, no inheritance tax. Queen Victoria, having ascended the throne practically penniless, saved at least $9,000,000. Edward VII was a spendthrift. George V was as thrifty as his grandmother. How big a fortune he passed on to King Edward VIII nobody except the Royal family now knows...
...important feature of this conference is represented in its aspects as a project designed especially for undergraduates, through the cooperation of the undergraduate dailies at the three universities concerned in utilizing the resources of these intellectual centers in a joint effort to face the primary problems in the realm of public affairs. Out of such a movement can only come a better comprehension of those questions in which every citizen should have an active interest, and a better mutual relationship in the pursuit of progressive education. --The Daily Princetonian
...metier whereby the theory is put into practice: far more adequate means should be provided for the study of public administration. To be sure, this field is a comparative newcomer in university courses, but its newness does not excuse Harvard's falling behind the times in a realm of ever-growing significance...
...Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...