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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The university lifts the college student out of his collegian environment and thrusts him into an educated community. It is a Harvard phenomena that no man is known as "The Big Man on Campus" because there is no central Harvard campus. But it is characteristic of Harvard that the main...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Great Debate: Small College vs. University | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

As man has worked up from the opposable thumb to the implosible bomb, he has learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Engineers | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

In their air-conditioned laboratories (environment in the center is controlled to the last decimal), P.H.S. researchers, working under exhaust hoods, are trying to cultivate the virus of infectious hepatitis (TIME, Feb. 8), which is often waterborne. A mycologist has isolated 150 different kinds of fungi, some of which may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Engineers | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

Then why did all her schoolmates fear and hate her? Why was she put out of a progressive school in Baltimore, and why did the old-fashioned sisters who ran an old-fashioned school in a Gulf coast city put her out of theirs not long after Rhoda's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Child | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

In the '30s, when "economic royalists" and "privileged princes" were blamed by F.D.R. for the Depression, the basic New Deal tax policy was to boost taxes in the upper brackets, keep them light on the "little man," and thus try to spur consumer spending and get the wheels of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Helping the Goose Lay Golden Eggs | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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