Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work in tapestry, painting, reliefs, and sculpture is arranged to show progress from the flat early concepts of young children, to a more rounded, mature construction. This is shown in depictions of trees, landscapes, human faces, and animal subjects...
...organs of healthy young dogs, like the organs of healthy young humans, are composed of cuboidal cells. These cells are vulnerable to alcohol, chloroform, uranium nitrate and other poisons. If the poisoning is slight, the destroyed cuboidal cells are promptly replaced. But if the poisoning is serious, peculiar flat cells repair the damage to liver and kidneys. Those flat cells withstand great amounts of intoxication, and possibly explain why mature men and women carry their liquor better than juveniles. "The mechanism which prevents poisons from injuring this type of cells is entirely unknown," said Dr. MacNider...
...livers of senile men and women, continued Dr. MacNider, and the organs of senile dogs, even those that are known never to have been touched by poison or disease, are composed almost entirely of flat cells. Those senile flat cells are identical in appearance with the flat liver and kidney cells of young dogs which Dr. MacNider experimentally poisoned...
...Those flat cells, therefore, indicate at least one method by which the body may defend itself against destruction by disease or poison. Since those agents of death cause the formation of flat cells, Dr. MacNider found himself logically bound to conclude: "Certain tissue changes which we now designate as disease and consider essentially harmful and opposed to life may be changes in terms of adaptation which enable an organ or an organism not to die but to live, even though as a result of such changes the organ or the individual has to live at a lower level of physiological...
...cumulative effect of a variety of recent governmental policies, many of which can and should be modified without abandoning the underlying policy of eliminating abuses from the securities market. The tax on capital gains at high bracket income tax rates can be changed to a low rate flat tax with positive gain in revenue to the Treasury. The rule regarding trading by insiders can be modified so as to restore protective action by insiders on breaks, and still prevent unfair use of inside information. The margin requirements can be made a flexible instrument of control, rising promptly on stockmarket booms...