Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors, while not certain of what function the organ really performs, have known for years that schizophrenic patients improved after injections of an extract from the pineal glands of cattle. Trouble was that after a few days the patients stopped responding to the treatment and soon relapsed into their former state. Harvard University's Dr. Mark D. Altschule guessed that this was because of big beef protein molecules in the extract. He set himself the job of isolating the potent fraction in the pineal glands from this kind of protein...
...remarkable literary flair. On one hand, he said, clothes are a kind of language. "They tell us who is happy and who in mourning, who is rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have the function of concealment. "There are certain acts, most honest in themselves because carried out by divine arrangement, which need nevertheless to be protected by a veil of shadow and hidden by reserved silence, so as to ensure respect for their great...
...think it is our function to become an almost entirely honors department," he added...
Still as uncertain as new schoolboys of the exact nature of their function, the newly elected legislators of Ethiopia were unlikely to criticize the Emperor's activities very strongly for some time to come. The constitution makes the Cabinet responsible not to them but to the Emperor, gives him the power to appoint every member of the Senate. But thanks to Haile Selassie, they were there in the Parliament, empowered and even encouraged to voice the will of their constituents. For the people of Ethiopia, it was a major improvement on the past, when the only way to make...
...tended to accept his belief that the physical universe is merely a mathematical process devoid of purpose and quality or any rapport with man. "With this abandonment of man's native rapport with the whole, the nerve of worth in his own living and acting silently ceases to function. Here, I venture to think, is the root of our malady. For this is the first principle of human motivation: that the meaning descends from the whole to the parts...