Word: realm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. Particularly proud of its Chinese record is Y. M. C. A. In the Cabinet of ex-President Chiang Kai-shek two years ago, six of the members were former Y-secretaries. Said Secretary Harmon last year: ''We regard this work as an invention in the realm of social and spiritual life just as much as the telephone and electric light is in the scientific life, and these secretaries are trained technicians who are installing the system...
...book "The Distribution of Wealth," Professor Carver established the principles of economic theory. This book is still regarded as an authority in its particular field. Of recent years Professor Carver has been turning his attention largely toward the new realm of sociology. A member of the newly organized Department of Sociology he has had a vital interest in its development giving time and thought to its administration. In addition to his course in the "Problems of Economic and Social Theory" he has given a course dealing in "Social Organization and Structure...
Ever since universities have left the field of pure scholarship and entered into the realm of practical matters, there has been a difference, amounting almost to a hostility, between academic theorists and actual practitioners. Especially has this condition been true in the subject of economics. Professors in Economics and business men, instead of co-operating for their mutual advantage, have been inclined to frown on each others ideas. Such a thing as the Business School, which tries to combine the two, is looked down upon by both...
...Archbishop and the Pope have never met, doubtless never will; but if they should, they might well - much as great rival bankers might discuss a merger each has been trying to perform before the other-discuss the matter of the old Orthodox Eastern Church and to which realm (Rome or England) it is to be united. In his encyclical of last fortnight, the Pope earnestly beckoned to his "su-preme chair of truth" all non-Roman sects, with special aim in the beckon to Eastern Christians (TIME, Jan. 4). Well-informed as he is, the Pope doubtless knew what...
...Lord Abdicates. In Peiping (once Peking), just outside the Great Wall, Japan's "threatened offensive broke down last week the morale of young War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang, whom Japan forced out of Manchuria, his ancestral realm, last September. Despairingly Young Chang abdicated his Manchurian rights in favor of "Old Uncle" Chang Tso-hsiang...