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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. Cannon has 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

Emile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, but spent his boyhood in Aix. He was the son of an Italian engineer and a rugged French country maid. His father had a scheme to water the dried-up fountains of Aix. But he died in the midst of this first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pariah and Prophet | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

The difficulty of sustaining interest in activities that require a year-round and constant attendance at rehearsals is notorious. Undeniably the Plerian Sodality has suffered from the aversion that the monotony of unvariated repetition must rouse even in the musician most given to his art, and all the more powerful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JONNY STRIKES UP | 12/7/1928 | See Source »

With the passing years the Slavs solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slav Epic | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

"The number of years during which a man has lived has nothing to do with his real age. Every human being is different from every other human being. Each one is unique in nature. We are the result of heredity, environment, diseases and psychological experiences. The passing of time will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Age | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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