Word: huntingtonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, they say, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...
...named the Daily News-Digest and published in Meriden, Conn., Texarkana, Ark., Huntington, W.Va., Allentown, Pa. and Monroe...
...year later to further knowledge and research on the part American women have played in making history. It has now grown to include 2500 books plus steadily increasing piles of manuscripts, letters, and papers. The only other collections comparable in size and importance are at Smith College and the Huntington Library in California...
Supporting Smithies in his general thesis were Daniel S. Cheever, lecturer in Government, and Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government...
...Huntington said the Republican defense plans result from the party's basic motivation to lower taxes. This objective, he explained, has not brought about a balanced military force...