Word: imparting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 effectiveness. Such changes, therefore, become a mechanism of defense and impart resistance of an acquired nature...
...Senator Ashurst's notion that some Senate hearings have lacked dignity, a quality which he does his best to impart. Best sample he gave last week was when Dorothy Thompson, asked whether the President's proposal would not have been considered fantastic a year ago, responded...
...style Thought Control Offices, several hundred Japanese instructors will gravely impart to Japanese subjects in batches what they are to think and are not to think. In Japan this is only a re-introduction of such measures as were taken in 1649 when the State issued an edict minutely instructing peasants upon such points as the imperative necessity of divorcing a gadabout wife. Since 1928, police have arrested some 60,000 Japanese on the charge of "thinking Dangerous Thoughts." The 22 Thought Control Offices came as a kind of relief, providing centres more comfortable than jails in which docile Japanese...
...generally acknowledged that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly from the absence of a body of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of science and the direction of academical education. . . . The presence of men eminent in various departments of knowledge would impart a dignity and stability to the whole institution, far more effectual against attacks from without than the utmost amount of privilege and protection." Attacks from without--the phrase has a modern ring. Events proved that the Commission of 1850 was correct in its statement, the changes which they advocated restored the confidence...
...when the town learns of the twenty million dollars, the town comes to Mr. Deeds. Gary Cooper succeeds once again in delineating that gawky, boyish bashfulness that entrances even Marlene Dietrich. However shining a badge of genuineness such behavior may be outside of the movies, simplicity and naviete impart an unquestionable worth to a movie person...