Word: contently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much greater than when the sugar content is high. Therein may be partial explanation for loss of appetite after candy eating. But why, candy-eaters might ask, do cigaret-smokers lack good appetites...
...been conducting a series of investigations since 1896, concerned with the natural defenses of the body against bacteria, mechanical disturbances, and against thermal and chemical changes in environment. He has paid particular attention, in his research to the best regulation of the body, and the coagulation and sugar content of the blood...
...understand, must secure its facts from science. Just why facts are necessary to religious concepts or just what facts we know outside the realm of science. Dr. Barnes has not seen fit to reveal. Most scientists put their primary interest in the observed conditions of life and are content to base their religion on then inmost individual thoughts. Now in his speech before a society of Free Thinkers Professor Barnes lays down the one and only "scientific" view of the cosmos...
...trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content for a further while. They would get him the $8,000,000 endowment. Until then they would pay the bills that he could...
...term has an ethical content and has come to symbolize the effort that is being made by the National Association to raise the standards throughout this country and Canada of the real estate brokerage business. Tremendous progress has been made in this respect and a great deal if not most of it is due to the effectiveness and value of the term "Realtor" in symbolizing this effort...