Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the report to the President this year, Director McAdie advocated that it would be beneficial to Harvard and to science, for the University authorities to consider the establishment of a Division of Aerography, "separate and distinct from Geography, Geology or Physics. This would place Harvard in a commanding position...
"Only the tuberculous are immune from tuberculosis," is a theory long held by physicians. About 90% of the population are mildly infected early in life, set up a resistance, die of automobile accidents, bad oysters, or other causes; show tuberculous lesions on autopsy. Dr. Leon Charles Albert Calmette, assistant director...
This experiment was many times repeated. Finally it was deemed safe for humans. French and Belgian physicians collaborated to inoculate the newborn, particularly those with tuberculous antecedents. Thousands of babies have been shot with B. C. G. in the last five years, and their progress carefully watched. Many of them...
E. R. Hickey directs our attention to a striking example. In "The New Criminology" (Liveright), by Dr. Max Schlapp and Edward H. Smith, the authors attribute criminal propensities and acts to a congenitally faulty endocrinal condition that is to something wrong with the various ductless glands of the body, owing...
Persons of fashion use a strange adjective for the things which they consider as belonging properly to their environment; such things they call "smart." Less polished people use an adjective which is far more descriptive of smart things: they use the word "ritzy." The word is from the proper noun...