Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barnes Bill, if passed, will be another step toward the political control of education, which is hateful to the American people and subversive to their concept of freedom.... It threatens the independence and originality of thought which have so long been a tradition in education," assorts the HTU statement...
...worldly characters in the picture, most of whom never suspect that Dudley's mononomenclature suggests a nether background. Here is one example of this strange mental dullness in otherwise apparently intelligent characters. The bishop, it has been established, knows what Dudley is, although he finds the concept a difficult one to accept, despite overwhelming evidence of its truth. He introduces the angel to his wife. "This is Dudley," says the bishop. "Dudley who?" says the bishop's wife. "Just Dudley," says Cary Grant, in a tone of casual mysterioso. This explanation seems to satisfy the bishop's wife...
...Simple Concept. Looking back over the year, U.S.-citizens might wonder how their enlightenment had come about. Looking back, Old Soldier Marshall might wonder himself. It was a kaleidoscopic story of surprise, improvisation and counterattack. When he took over as Secretary of State, George Marshall, despite his attendance at wartime conferences, was no skilled diplomat. He had been sent to China as a special presidential envoy to bring peace between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government and the Chinese Communists. He failed in his mission. He came back denouncing the Chinese Communists as "irreconcilable," the Nationalists as "reactionary...
...faith as the sole key to salvation; faith alone- not works-justifies the soul and frees it from bondage to the Law and to Sin. But the faithful Christian, though he puts no trust in good works, nevertheless performs them as the result of his faith. Luther expressed this concept in a paradox: "The Christian man is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none . . . [but] . . . the Christian man is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject...
...work in order to organize his courses into a meaningful pattern, can make the most of his opportunity to study at the nation's number one college." The average undergraduate, not quite an honors candidate, is happy for four years without tutorial, without advice, without plan or overall concept--happy, but possibly in a fool's paradise...