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In the 1939 lecture, Tolkien introduced the term " fantasy " in a sense of " higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so ( when achieved ) the most potent ".
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It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939.
Hitchcock explained the term " MacGuffin " in a 1939 lecture at Columbia University: " have a name in the studio, and we call it the ' MacGuffin '.
In 1939, Rocker had to undergo a serious operation and was forced to give up lecture tours.
* " On Fairy-Stories ," the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture at St Andew's University, is a defence of the fantasy genre.
* Canadian Club of Ottawa lecture ( 1939 ), " Pan-American Relations "
He then departed in September 1939 for an extended lecture tour in the United States, leaving his wife to manage Renvyle House, which had since been rebuilt as a hotel.
There he took every opportunity to speak in favor of the Nazi cause but after a hostile confrontation at a lecture he gave at the Russell-Lamson Hotel in Waterloo in May 1939, he hastily returned to Germany.
In 1939, she joined her son on a tour of the United States where he was invited to lecture on his infamous uncle.
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In June 1939 I had even given a public lecture in Birmingham about uranium fission, where I talked about the effects of such a bomb but of course added that the technical preparations would be so large that one did not know how soon they could be overcome.
Milk's sexual coming of age starts in 1939 when he is a student at Indiana University in Bloomington and attends Kinsey ’ s “ marriage course ”, a lecture in which the renowned zoologist propounds his theories and his plans for the first time in front of a large audience.
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First to be introduced were their northern descendants — the " Rangers ", and the southern people appeared when Tolkien pondered in 1939 over the course of the narrative following the Council of Elrond.
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Category: Comics characters introduced in 1939
The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.
Category: Amusement rides introduced in 1939
In 1939, he married Eileen Loo, who had introduced him to the GSD community.
The Flying Red Horse ( Pegasus ) logo was introduced in 1939, and in 1954 the Plume brand was replaced by Mobilgas.
In 1939 they introduced their electric razor, the Philishave ( marketed in the USA using the Norelco brand name ).
While it was not a true ice age, the term was introduced into the scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.
Although the " Brothers " was dropped from the name for trucks in 1929 and cars in 1930, the DB star remained in the cars until the 1939 models were introduced.
The concept of a fish restaurant was introduced by Samuel Isaacs ( born 1856 in Whitechapel, London ; died 1939 in Brighton, Sussex ) who ran a thriving wholesale and retail fish business throughout London and the South of England in the latter part of the 19th century.
Postal codes were first introduced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in December 1932, but the system was abandoned in 1939.
Historically, the first term for optimization was " linear programming ", which was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939.
At the 1939 New York World's Fair, National Presto Industries, known as the " National Pressure Cooker Company " at the time, introduced its own pressure cooker.
* 1939 – The View-Master stereo viewer is introduced.
Category: Comics characters introduced in 1939
In 1939, Crayola, by combining its existing crayon colors with the Munsell colors, introduced its largest color assortment product to date ; a " No. 52 Drawing Crayon 52 Color Assortment ", which was retired by the 1944 price list.
Electricity, provided by Texas Power and Light, was introduced in 1939.
In 1939 a Machine Fuze Setter was introduced to eliminate manual fuze setting.
Forsyth made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on a talent show introduced by Jasmine Bligh, probably an episode of Come and Be Televised ( BBC, 1939 ), broadcast from Radiolympia.
Between early 1939 and late 1941, DC and sister company All-American Publications introduced such popular superheroes as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, the Atom, Hawkman, and Aquaman, while Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles that featured the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America.
This was despite Curtin furiously opposing conscription during World War I, and again in 1939 when it was introduced by the Menzies government.
Recursion theory in mathematical logic has traditionally focused on relative computability, a generalization of Turing computability defined using oracle Turing machines, introduced by Turing ( 1939 ).
The current four-lap ( ten-mile ) qualifying distance was first introduced in 1920, and has been used every year since 1939.
1939 and term
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare.
Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.
The term covalent bond dates from 1939.
The term was earlier used in sociology by Norbert Elias in The Civilizing Process ( 1939 ) and in Marcel Mauss's account of " body techniques " ( techniques du corps ).
But Carías, by then a virtual dictator, wanted even more, so in 1939 the legislature, now completely controlled by the PNH, obediently extended his term in office by another six years ( to 1949 ).
Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U. S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.
After the German Empire's World War I-era army air force, the Luftstreitkräfte, and naval air units had been disbanded under the term of the Treaty of Versailles the Luftwaffe was reformed in 1935 and grew to become one of the strongest, most doctrinally advanced, and most battle-experienced air forces in the world when World War II started in Europe in September 1939.
In the summer of 1939 the Nazis themselves actually banned the continued use of the term in the press, ordering it to use expressions such as nationalsozialistisches Deutschland (" National Socialist Germany "), Grossdeutsches Reich (" Greater German Reich "), or simply Deutsches Reich ( German Reich ) to refer to the German state instead.
Menzies ' first term as Prime Minister commenced in 1939, after the death in office of the United Australia Party leader Joseph Lyons and a short-term interim premiership by Sir Earle Page.
Adolf Hitler redefined the term to mean the entire mountainous periphery of Czechoslovakia, and under that pretext, got his future enemies to concede the Czech defensive border in the 1938 Munich Agreement, leaving the remainder of Czechoslovakia shorn of its border fortifications and buffer zone, occupied by Germany in March 1939.
Philosopher and historian Alexandre Koyré coined the term scientific revolution in 1939 to describe this epoch.
Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U. S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.
The term " cyclone " is used as a synonym for " tornado " in the often-aired 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.
In 1939, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term in office, the foundations of the modern White House staff were created.
Stephen Fienberg describes the evolution from " inverse probability " at the time of Bayes and Laplace, a term still used by Harold Jeffreys ( 1939 ), to " Bayesian " in the 1950s.
A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term ( he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford ) which enabled him to stay at the university for a fourth year ; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1939.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome was most commonly noted in medical literature in the early 20th century but the first use of the term was noted 1939.
The term of 87 days ( counting the first and last days in full and excluding its " caretaker " function that continued for months afterwards ) was the shortest since the fifth cabinet of Hendrikus Colijn ( 25 July 1939-10 August 1939 ).
The sketch appeared under the title " From Work in Progress ", a term applied to works by Ernest Hemingway and Tristan Tzara published in the same issue, and the one by which Joyce would refer to his final work until its publication as Finnegans Wake in 1939.
The term is still strongly linked to the context of the events of 1939 – 45, and particularly to opposition movements in Axis-occupied countries.
The first attested use of the term sociolinguistics was by Thomas Callan Hodson in the title of a 1939 paper.
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