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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Groton Averell is remembered as a modest, fairly intelligent boy. Both there and at Yale he was, like most young men of the same background, satisfied with a "gentleman's C." Only the "broad environment" of Yale, he thinks, saved him from becoming a snob. "I shudder to think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/9/1947 | See Source »

Third, I & E materials and supplies maps, fact sheets, etc.,--were hopelessly inadequate until the end of 1944. The greatest obstacle to effective I & E functioning was the psychology of the average G.I. Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

The basic difference between the quick & the dead is ability to grow. Biologists feel that if they could understand growth, they might understand what life is. But growth in nature is complicated. Within a growing cell are hundreds, probably thousands of chemical compounds, their molecules weaving in & out, exchanging atoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Simplest Life | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

Diagnosticians, who for the past two months have kept their fingers close to the pulse of the United Nations, can be well pleased with the state of their patient's health. Still an infant--unable to stand without the aid of its powerful parents--more inclined to emitting peculiar noises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Child Prodigy | 12/21/1946 | See Source »

Just as Carlson had a warning for the U. S. in his first expose, so he offers a message now for a new national environment. During the war he pointed to the menace of soditionists, working for Germany under the protection of democratic civil liberties. Today he shows that the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

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