Word: conceptions
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...racial discrimination in the South African Union. Long before its present intolerant leadership got control of the country, Field Marshal Jan Smuts contended in 1946 that "the question of the U.N.'s right to intervene in the domestic affairs of a member state is vital to the whole concept...
...period of aviation technology in which aircraft of unusual configuration and flight characteristics will begin to appear." As an example of aircraft-to-come, he told about "another project under contract with A. V. Roe Canada, Ltd., which could result in disk-shaped aircraft somewhat similar to the popular concept of a flying saucer. An available picture, while only an artist's conception, could illustrate such an object...
...European concept of man with dignity as a thinking individual is now in danger from both Asia and America, Andre Siegfried, Bacon Exchange Professor and member of the French Academy said last night in a lecture...
...turn differs from both America and Europe in its sacrifice of the individual to the interests of the group, Siegfried went on to say. As America and Asia begin to dominate the world through a mastery of the techniques of mass production, they threaten Europe and Europe's concept of man, he observed...
...filtration concept" of atherosclerosis is that as the blood fraction passes into the artery walls it may break down some of the less stable combinations containing cholesterol. These are most likely to be the beta-lipoproteins, containing the big, flabby cholesterol molecules. If something removes the protein coating, which makes it possible for the combination to circulate in the blood as though in solution, then the insoluble fatty cholesterol molecule is left in the artery wall. If this happens often enough, the artery wall will thicken, roughen and begin to break down...