Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
...means unrelated to conditions elsewhere under his jurisdiction. Imperative changes recommended in the curriculum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious, in the sense of making him keenly aware of a kinship with other schools, is impossible, but such illumination as the annual report is welcome for its message to those who take...
...also refer to any person who traffics or dabbles in real estate as a "realtor." Thus, while all "Realtors" are "realtors," not all "realtors" are "Realtors."-ED. Camel & Chesterfield Magazine Sirs: Your excellent publication might easily be termed the Chesterfield of magazines-"it satisfies," and from my personal viewpoint the word Camel would certainly apply for "I'd walk a mile for a copy...
...evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...absolutely disapprove such sentimental or political doctrines or views. There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...