Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average citizen, culture is a handy catchall into which to dump the arts, education, plumbing, science and any other pursuits that seem to be elements of modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris valley...
Frank, lecturer on physics and mathematics, refused to distinguish between the realms of facts and values. "For the scientist, there is only one realm: facts," he said. "Values are facts like all other qualities...
...Full Time . . . "From the very hour he was taken away in the black of night from his home, his flock, his aged mother, Cardinal Mindszenty became the victim of torturings and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help. It was he himself who said to me, when he was the honored guest here less than two years ago, 'My enemies can take from me no more than my life, and that has already been given...
After two pleasant sojourns in the prop school realm, Coach Lloyd Harper's freshman basketball team moves back into college competition tonight. They will meet MIT in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Foundation began by sponsoring concerts in Washington similar to those at South Mountain. Its realm soon enlarged, however, to publications, radio, bringing European musicians to America, awarding medals for outstanding service to chamber music, continuing to commission new works, and, perhaps most important, beginning a program of free "extension concerts" in Europe and in educational and cultural institutions in the United States...