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Word: didacticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Drivel! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

In his autobiography Steffens pictured his development as a logical process, which had the effect of making him seem egotistical, self-assured, didactic. His letters show him to have been emotional, genial, affectionate, often bewildered, but with a lively awareness of his own contradictions. In one of his periodic hunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reformer's Letters | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

This was a far more noncommittal gesture than Woodrow Wilson's cablegram to Emperor Franz Josef on Aug. 4, 1914, offering "to act in the interest of European peace." Yet to the increasingly numerous U. S. sympathizers with the Czechs, it was still a gesture. England, France and South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Reason v. Force | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Politely omitted from the Druggist's copy are the names of its two principal targets-lean, freckled, didactic Frederick John Schlink, of Washington, N. J., and dark, intense Arthur Kallet of Manhattan. Earnest consumers know that Engineers Schlink and Kallet began a beautiful friendship in 1928 when both were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guinea Pigs' Friends | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: Medical Artist | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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