Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...policy discussion followed, in which the Union adopted a platform on both national and international affairs. The national program advocated a continuation of the New Deal, and an extension of the "concept that democracy is a program for human betterment as well as a governmental procedure...
...theory of emergent evolution holds that space, time, matter, life are not independent of each other but form an organic whole. Reiser's basic space-time-matter trinity is about as mystical a concept as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. He finds it religiously inspiring, scientifically sound. Typical points...
...Frontier." But don't let the name fool you; it's no conventional western. The fact is the March of Time's say-so on what's up south of the Rio Grande, another contribution to the general chaos and confusion that is U. S. A.'s concept of its 'good neighbours.' But after all, if the Mexicans don't seem to have a very clear idea of what they're doing, how can the March of Time...
Then in 1915 Einstein produced his General Theory of Relativity, a beautiful theoretical concept but, after all, just a theory. Yet the Relativity mathematics was found to predict a shift of Mercury's orbit which was practically the same as the observed shift. This was the first observational prop for Relativity.* So Einstein may have felt a nostalgic glow last week, if anyone remembered to tell him that Mercury was transiting (passing directly between the sun and the earth...
...come to have a meaning for the enlightened student, which it has, and if he has adopted it as the principle which he would like to have govern his relations with the university, then no definition of terms from above can deprive him of the conviction that this limited concept be extended to apply to his own case, as well as to that of the faculty...