Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...create a bureaucratic maze of red tape and impede rather than facilitate smooth functioning. The New Deal may be justly criticized for an unfortunate tangling of bureaus, but certain of the new boards of the government are equally as justly to be praised, as necessary expansions in a widening sphere. Harvard's new creation of a Dean of the University may also be praised as a justified expansion of administrative agencies...
...economic sphere, Professor Haring sees as possible accomplishments of the conference the reduction of existing trade barriers chiefly through elimination of import quotas, and a controlled exchange system...
...thousands of teachers and scientists who have been exiled since Hitler came into power bear testimony to the incompatibility of Fascism and science," Boas continued. The manifesto extended Boas' statement: "Any attack upon freedom of thought in one sphere, even as non-political a sphere as theoretical physics, is an attack on democracy itself...
...Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry thereby becoming the cliche...
...initial shock at this innovation will be relieved to find that: 1) If, as Franklin Roosevelt says, it is inadequate for national defense, his favorite branch of the service is still amply capable of giving taxpayers their money's worth in a theatre. 2) Aside from its new sphere of operations, the Navy's chief interest remains what it always has been: romance, in this case between the daughter (Nancy Kelly) of a freighter's captain and a daring young engineer (Richard Greene*) on the submarine chaser S.C. 599, assigned to convoy the freighter through the Mediterranean...