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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Dubuque, Iowa, there lives, doubtless, an old lady. Her existence is recognized only because certain middle-aged people in Manhattan began some weeks ago to think about her. She came frequently into their conversation and, at each allusion, a leer passed round the company?all spoke in derisive terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Yorker | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

The tutorial system will be regarded as of very minor importance by the student as long as it is so regarded by the College office! Overemphasis on course grades is fatal to its full development. It has quite astonishingly achieved much in spite of a hostile environment; it can never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING GRADE | 2/17/1925 | See Source »

A newspaper's environment is in the public which reads it. It goes without saying that the quality of a newspaper represents the quality of its readers. A great newspaper has often been known to scream in the headlines and grow purple in its editorials about an oil scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bulletin vs. Childs | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

With one grand slash of the pen, the professor reduces all mankind to a single dead level. "There is no such thing," says he, "as an inheritance of capacity, talent, temperament, mental constitution and characteristics. These things depend on training." It has always been thought that environment and training are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UP SLUGGARD! | 1/13/1925 | See Source »

Sex of Plants. Certain plants can be made to change from male to female or the reverse by altering conditions of soil, moisture, light. The inference is that sex is dependent on environment.-Prof. John H. Shaffner, Ohio State University.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grand Conclave | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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