Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris suggests that some colleges might re-establish their financial equilibrium by consolidation of schools along the Harvard-Radcliffe line and conversion of many four-year institutions into junior colleges...
...third period, with Notre Dame leading 33-0 and Leahy's second-string backs in the game, Tulane recovered its equilibrium long enough to score a touchdown. Leahy sent his triggermen in again for another quick punch, ended the game with his second-and third-stringers in easy command. Final score: Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7. Tulane had committed the grievous sin of looking too strong too far ahead of kickoff time. With all of' its opponents pointing as usual for Notre Dame, it looked a bit as though South Bend had broken its customary policy for once...
Here & there-gasoline and some meats, for example-prices were still edging up. But prices generally seemed to be settling into an uneasy equilibrium. The commodity markets, which had been weak, rose slightly on the news of Secretary Brannan's new farm price-support plan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...concept of 'adjustive response' directs attention to the contributions made by a culture pattern to the preservation of the equilibrium of individuals." Kluckhohn asserted, adding that anthropological analysis has tended to lose sight of the human organism...
...highly specialized animal ... is practically in equilibrium with all phases of his environment... Is something similar, perhaps, happening to the scientist? Is the specialist, in the confines of his narrow discipline, failing to accept the challenge of unfamiliar territory, to risk the uncertainties and the tensions of coupling and interconnecting the many aspects of science? ... If this is so, he is no longer a true scientist...