Word: concept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indicate. Obstetrics, unless I am mistaken, is the science and art of pre-natal care and delivery. The teeth discover a proved uterine existence early in embryonic life, a significant circumstance in attempting to control their normal development. We should be concerned as dentists with a very broad concept of the factors affecting dental disease to the end that your children may be less affected by dental disturbances...
...smooth in the assembly of the first building, which Dr. Houser called "quite Darwinian, almost protozeau in its concept." But regardless of bad guesses on this side of the water, ingenuity prevailed...
...Aztec religion there was no ethical concept-its heaven, like the Greek Hades, was devoid of moral significance. Aztec theology held that in bygone eras mankind had been successively wiped out by jaguars, by hurricanes, by fiery volcanic rains. The Aztecs in 1519 believed that their world would in time end amid horrendous earthquakes controlled by the Sun God. So with a relentless if grisly logic, they propitiated the deities at all costs, offering up mankind's most precious possession, its own lifeblood...
...concept of irresponsibility is not worthy of a free people or of a people who believe in God. We are responsible to other free peoples-and they are responsible to us. Cain never received an answer to his outraged question, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' But we all know the answer. The answer...
...whole unbalanced. Economic forces imperceptibly demanded population shifts, obscured somewhat by a century of expanding frontiers. The trend toward equilibrium is clear except for the period of about a century ago. The worsening equilibriums of 1840 (see chart), 1850 and 1860 reveal the underlying struggle between the concept of federation (homogeneity) and of the sovereign parts...