Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This war will certainly end with a large-scale social organization of mankind, both horizontally and vertically. It will end with certain achievements as far as the form of government is concerned . . . will lead to the strengthening of the democratic concept ... to more political freedom for the individual. It will end with achievements in the economic field that will reduce the exploitation...
...Quebec's potent, ultraisolationist party, the Bloc Populaire, was the Order's political tool. He said that the Order's ultimate aim "is not only to disunite the people on lingual and religious matters, but also to disrupt confederation, to abandon the more humane North American concept of a large nation composed of different religious beliefs and racial origins and to revert to the old European concept of smaller nations of the same religious and racial descent...
Also dealt with, but probably not for keeps, was Sister Elizabeth Kenny's method of treating infantile paralysis. After two years of research, a special committee reported that: 1) just as many people recover from polio without Kenny treatment as with it; 2) Sister Kenny's concept of the disease (TIME, Sept. 27) is wrong; 3) her treatment is neither new nor unique. Retorted Sister Kenny, who was also in Chicago last week: "[The A.M.A. report is] the most criminal thing that ever happened in [any work] . . . a terrible thing to put out . . . the most cruel thing that...
...refugee without an adequate laboratory, Ehrenhaft has again challenged a basic concept. When an electric current passes through acidified water between iron poles, the current decomposes the water and oxygen is formed at the positive pole. It is Ehrenhaft's claim that when the two poles of a horseshoe magnet are substituted for the current, oxygen is present in the gas that rises from the north magnetic pole. Therefore, he reasoned, the water is decomposed and there must be a flow of magnetic current...
Cost in Money. Now after 28 months of war, its casualty list was still small (173,238 in 27 months). But its concept of the conflict as a dollar war was coming fantastically true. This week Manhattan's Tax Institute, Inc. estimated that by next year World War II will have cost the Axis and Allies a trillion dollars.* According to the Tax Institute, the war is currently costing the Allies $150 billion a year-$410 million a day. The Axis is now spending about $50 billion, but gets more for its money because of forced labor, currency manipulation...