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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivaling the incredibility of the Wessels-hen (see above) is the Hilturnip. This turnip, located on the farm of one T. G. Hill, near Corpus Christi, Tex., grew up in a cabbage patch. Responding to environment, it swelled larger, larger, larger. Finally it reached a diameter of 25 inches, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

Mummy Germs: Tubercular bacilli found in Egyptian mummies are just like those that infest human bodies today. The characteristics of living matter change only as environment changes. Primitive living molecules were and are proteins. There is no life save in protein. The first evidence of life is metabolism or trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Richmond | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

In a discussion of the memorial to honor Harvard's war dead two issues arise-the ideal and the practical. They are separate and distinct and should remain so. The CRIMSON is thoroughly in sympathy with the sincerity of the committee which has proposed this church, now definitely announced for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAR MEMORIAL | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

If the student desires to learn how to think, to understand; that is, if he wants an education in the best sense of the word, he may concentrate in geology. Yet he should note also the advisability, of choosing other, fundamental studies. Before entering far into geology he should have...

Author: By R. A. Daly, | Title: Choosing A Field of Concentration | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

Albania is a country of grim politics, sudden tribal uprisings, secret murders, and foreign intrigues. No man was even better suited to such an environment than Fan Noli and those interested it Albanian politics will be sure to heat from him soon again.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fan Noli, Harvard Graduate, Has Been Tempestuous Force in Albanian Politics--Danger Yet Lurks Under Scrivener's Hood | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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