Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On convention: "Man is an idealizing animal-and expresses his ideals (values) in the conventions of his time. I have very little respect for the conventions in themselves, but respect and generally try to observe those of my own environment."
Hocus-Pocus. Now it was Malenkov's turn. He may have achieved his victory by means of-of all things-an intricate debate on genetics. This week, linking fact with plausible conjecture, the New York Times's Foreign Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger put together the story. In the...
It is not often that doctors get a patient with a window in his stomach, but when they do, they make the most of it. From the first such case that was carefully studied, in the 1820s,* they garnered many details of the mechanisms of digestion; in more recent cases...
Outwardly, little Madeleine's life was a succession of sleazy flats in the slummier parts of Paris, poor food, illness, and an environment in which bawds and criminal riffraff were taken for granted. Her father died a pauper, and for several days, while her mother tried to raise money...
THE energetic environment valve in which the Fullers flux-ate when Bucky is at home is definitely non-Dymaxion and infra-geodesic: a two-room Queens apartment with bath and kitchenette such as might have served a young couple beginning married life modestly in 1912. The living room is furnished...