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Word: environmental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hallam L. Movius, Jr. '30, Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, will lead an expedition to the small farming village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France this summer. He plans to study "the relationship between the Upper Paleolithic man and his slowly changing environment from 20 to 35...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movius to Study Palaeolithic Life, Prehistoric Man | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Considering the tremendous impact of anthropology on modern thought it is perhaps surprising that such a systematic investigation has been so long delayed. For decades field workers have returned to civilization to tell us that primitive thought is as much a cultural artifact as potsherds, farming methods, and sex taboos...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Portrayal of American Colleges Explains 'Intellectual Specialists' | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

The students who flunk out "are certainly not dumbbells," said Bender. "They are often very useful, fine, intelligent people, who have a problem adjusting to the Harvard environment." He pointed out that the seven per cent drop is "only one class--an isolated situation, not a trend."

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Record of Class of '61 Called Disappointing | 2/17/1959 | See Source »

Challenge & Response. Simplest and most basic motivation of the drive into space is man's enduring and insatiable drive to explore and know his environment. Space is a challenge simply because, like Mount Everest, it is there. Hundreds of millions of years ago, earth's life ventured from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Push into Space | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

In its current incarnation, Twelfth Night takes place on and in front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Twelfth Night | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

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