Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something, he remarked sternly as he walked out, would have to be done. The correct approach to this was obvious--live in a Russian environment. Russians led a simple life. They had samovars, rode in troikas, and were chased by wolves. A man with a very long name wrote a...
The lecture, fifth and last in a series sponsored jointly by the Harvard Summer School and the American Association of Scientific Workers, describes how weather, vegetation, water supply, raw materials, and other items of natural environment affect tactics, and how the planning of strategy is closely linked with climatic conditions...
> The roomin-house districts breed paranoid schizophrenia-a split personality given to delusions of persecutions and grandeur, hallucinations, indifference to environment.
It didn't take long for Private Hargrove to get the feel of the Army. (By the time his book was published, he was a corporal.) It was a matter, simply, of getting used to an environment which is novel and robustly companionable, despite its hard work and its...
Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity...