Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Geography has triumphed over history, environment over heredity," says Siegfried. "The New World has lost all sense of reality of contact with Greco-Roman culture, which is characteristic of the formation of Europe, and if it remains fundamentally Christian, it is in the Jewish rather than the Greek sense, following...
Yale, in disclosing the new plan, said that it was caused to a great extent by extra-curricular life conflicting with studies. "Undoubtedly," the Yale announcement said, "the emphasis on athletics, extra-curricular life, weekends, and a bee-hive of activity outside the classroom on which prestige and success are...
The Superintendent of Metropolitan State, William F. McLaughlin, M.D., describes the contributions of the volunteers in another way. "We don't have enough doctors and nurses to reach all the patients. And even if we did, we still don't know the real answer to curing the patients. But if...
Are Americans prosperous simply because they stumbled upon a fabulous lode of natural resources? The book quotes the late Economist Wesley Mitchell, who pointed out that American Indians "lived in a poverty-stricken environment. For them, no coal existed, no petroleum, no metals beyond nuggets of pure copper . . . A precarious...
Paper Dolls. Designer McCardell comes by her deep feeling for an American way of design not only by birth but by the surroundings of her early environment. She was born (May 24, 1905) in historic Frederick, Md., where Francis Scott Key practiced law and where the Barbara Frietchie legend sprouted...