Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1913, in his pioneering work, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Beard argued that the Founding Fathers represented four groups of interests: "money, public securities, manufactures, and trade & shipping." "The Constitution," Beard said, "was essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities...
Sister Kenny's theory and treatment are fully explained in another book published this year: The Kenny Concept of Infantile Paralysis and Its Treatment, by Dr. John F. Pohl and Sister Kenny (Bruce...
...Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky, the captor of Yelnya. A husky, keen-faced, long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...great and only question for the Allies was: Are these steps being taken? The requirements for an open city are not clearly stipulated (the open-city concept is laid down in Article 25 of the Hague Convention of 1907). But clearly they include adequate guarantees from a neutral party that...
...first step should be a military alliance with the British Commonwealth. Said Republican Luce: " The British Empire is America's natural buffer state. . . . In the world scene, any scheme, however noble in concept, to maintain peace will in the last analysis be no better than the character and clarity of the relationships between the United States and the British Commonwealth...