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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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And where is it moving? Nearly all scientific progress thus far, says Dr. Conant, has been in the "natural sciences"-those concerned with man's environment, rather than with man himself. The "social sciences" (everything from psychology to history) have certainly not given man much help in keeping up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unrepentant Scientist | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

To Gropius architecture and city planning are part and parcel of the same problem: bettering the physical environment and thus the well-being of Man. This is his point of departure from Wright, for whom he has the greatest admiration. Although a rebel to the core, past master of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

A psychiatrist was recently asked for a definition of a "welladjusted person" (not even slightly peculiar). The definition: "A person who feels in harmony with himself and who is not in conflict with his environment."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Who's Loony? | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

"My propensity for seersucker comes from my environment," Dolan opined yesterday. "I always like to be the first to get started." Like Bean Brummel, another figure distinguished by his mode of attire, Dolan prefers to set styles, not follow them.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Style-setter Answers Summons of Spring with Unfeverish Seersucker Draping | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

In discussing the novel, Kapstein considered it on its merits as a work of art, not as Forster's first book. Forster he pointed out, does not treat his characters in the traditional realism of Dreiser where the hero is trapped by his environment but shows the effect of successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kapstein Praises Forster Novel in Kirkland Lecture | 3/13/1947 | See Source »

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