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...says Mann, in one of his ecstatic outbursts, "is the most beautiful, austerest, blithest, most sacred symbol of all supra-reasonable human striving for ... truth and fullness" but it is also "only one humanistic discipline among others; all of them, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, even the natural sciences and technology . . . are only variations ... of one and the same high and interesting theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magic Mountains | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Basic English, the supra-national language that C. K. Ogden and Harvard's Dr. I. A. Richards have been developing since the early '20's, can be applied in other fields than teaching foreigners some simple, universal language. Dr. Richards said yesterday that education, advertising, newspapers, and radio broadcasts night all be increased in effectiveness through the use of Basic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richards Says Basic, English Will Aid Education, Press | 1/14/1944 | See Source »

Knox H. Finley, for a study of the significance of the rich capillary beds of the supra-optic and peraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 44 FACULTY MEMBERS GIVEN CLARK-MILTON AWARDS TOTALLING $40,900 | 5/8/1941 | See Source »

...Descartes's rationalism made reason self-sufficient, cut man loose from intuitive, supra-rational truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hope Against Mischief | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

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