Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...
...numbers 157,293 Roman Catholics, 27,158 taking instruction, and includes 82 priests (64 white, 18 Negro), with 40 parishes, three secondary schools, three teacher-training colleges, five hospitals and 329 primary schools. Bishop Amissah's thesis at St. Peter's College in Rome was on a comparison between Catholic canon law and native customs on marriage; he is currently investigating the native custom of pouring libations on important occasions (English gin, schnapps or potent akpeteshie, illicitly distilled from palm juice). There has been considerable church controversy over this practice; church leaders boycotted a welcome ceremony...
Whipple made the forecast on the basis of October and November observations of the satellite and on comparison with the behavior of Sputnik's rocket, which is presumed to have fallen to earth on the night of November...
Varsity goalie Tab Cleary did not shine in comparison to Tansey as he let in at least two goals he might have had. In the disastrous second period he had only four saves while he allowed five scores...
...duplicate it, it served somewhat as an inspiration for the spirit I wanted. But I don't want to imitate a European coffee house. The Mozart is a Cambridge cafe. I want it unique. I am not in competition with others and I don't think a valid comparison can be made between the Mozart and the old Capriccio...