Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME has a special offer for $1 and I would like to take advantage of it, but I am somewhat financially embarrassed...
Alarmed but also annoyed at seeing his bright quip give rise to international complications, Secretary MacDonald sent by special messenger a cleverly equivocal note to Consul Dominguez. "In that statement," he said, "the term 'Mexican General' was used in no way referring to the genuine Mexican generals who have shown ability and valor, but to the guerilla generals in Mexico, who for many years have infested that country to its detriment...
Angered afresh, Consul Dominguez replied instantly to Secretary MacDonald, also by special messenger: ". . . In my belief your excuse is puerile. My protest to the governor for the insult you made ... still remains until his excellency replies to me. ... In view of the seriousness and import because of my position as consul for Mexico the matter remains wholly to be settled between the head of the State and myself...
...promote either vagueness or ease. Human society is a concrete and unified phenomenon, whose concreteness and unity are no doubt obscured by the differences of method and approach which distinguish economics, history, government, anthropology and ethics. At the same time, however, these different social sciences have, through their very specialization, acquired a firmness of intellectual texture, a maturity of thought, and a body of information which are now essential to any competant understanding of society as a whole. The new field of concentration provides therefore, that students whose special interest is human society, shall combine these old fields...
While this plan of study is believed to be sound in principle there are no illusions as to its difficulty. It is believed that in view of the present limitations and decentralization of the social sciences the new field of concentration demands a special aptitude and seriousness of purpose