Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other grants announced today are for studies in human behavior and in judicial power. Pitirim Sorokin; professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Sociology, will prepare a study of time budgets as part of a broad survey of conditions among the unemployed of Massachusetts by Faculty members...
Because of its resemblance to the lemur, the question arose whether this primitive primate could have been a human ancestor. Dr. Jepsen thought not. Such a possibility would have been more favorably considered years ago when man was believed to have descended from a protolemuroid stock and it was paleontologically fashionable to speak of the "lemuroid phase" in the evolution of Anthropoidea (apes, monkeys, humans). Recent research in comparative anatomy has tended to displace the lemurs, as human ancestors, in favor of a small, tree-living nocturnal animal called Tarsius which has a thumb opposable to its fingers, eats with...
...swelling than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about the effects of smoking, anyway...
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places...
Landscape Architecture may be defined as the arrangement of land and the objects upon it for human use and enjoyment, where the good appearance of the result is of importance. For many years the landscape architect has been concerned largely with the planning and development of the private place, but of recent years the rapid increase in recreation has brought the demand for men trained in the profession to a point where it now exceeds the available supply. While the principal work of the landscape office in former years, the private place, has decreased, the amount of work on public...