Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man's guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the whale catch, caused recurrent famine years. So in 1892, a notable famine year, a Presbyterian missionary named...
Halliburton was something more than a bad writer, a rather hard-to-take public figure. He was an appealing, confused individual, a U. S. phenomenon, a U. S. symbol. The nice son of a nice U. S. environment, he never entirely either out grew or betrayed it. He was essentially...
An old man, continued Dr. Kennedy, is forgetful because his memory tract, the corpus callosum (a belt of fibres connecting the two brain hemispheres), shrinks to one-third its size. And he loses interest in his environment because he is plagued by "sensations from his gut," which his brain is...
One thing that surprises most people about Jim Williams' cartoons is the scope of their subject matter. He can draw a machine-shop scene one day, a cattle ranch the next, then a small-town home of the early igoos, and get all his details right, make his characters...
The Gluecks' next step was to examine the records of boys who reformed, pick out their prevailing characteristics. They found that boys with more intelligence and a more favorable home environment were most likely to straighten out. Eventually they found that the most reliable signs were: 1) parents'...