Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the face of this failure, the once sound rule which required all except commuting students to live in University rooms becomes an anachronism. Designed originally as an attempt to make Harvard a more cohesive unit by bringing as many students as possible within the orbit of House life and...
Neither the grey stone building nor its inhabitants had an air of contemplation, isolation or monasticism. The delegates laughed, quipped, swapped stories of their experiences like young returned war veterans.
Deeper, more disturbing than any military danger, was a new idea in the sensitive Swiss conscience: a realization of their national loneliness. Isolation in war had seemed necessary and honorable. But, however bountiful materially, isolation now seemed spiritually bleak. The Swiss were quietly but unmistakably heavy-hearted about their prosperity...
Another triumph: production and isolation in pure crystalline form of the most deadly biological poison known to man, the toxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, type A, bacteria which sometimes grow in home-canned vegetables.
The conservative-fundamentalist wing of all denominations "has, in effect, withdrawn from the cultural scene and taken its Christianity with it. . . . Thus, in a kind of cloistered isolation, conservatism has been running on the momentum of the Christian tradition, rather than on the perennial dynamics of the Christian faith." It...