Word: materia
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...snapshot of the contemporary jazz scene, he could do no better than to click on the James Williams Sextet's performance last Friday night. All the elements that constitute a great jazz concert were there: three generations of excellent horn players, a tight, driving rhythm section, good choice of materia, and a talented and charismatic gig leader to shine before a responsive crowd. The performance at Scullers Jazz Club at the Guest Quarter's Suite Hotel was a solid, fulfilling set of mainstream jazz...
...scholars, including Schrecker, say that by restricting access to archival materia, universities, are preventing historians from obtaining a complete understanding of historical events...
...elementary college-level course in a language and a science. For a language, Skinner will need the help of experts to scale and translate the material. His experimental "animals" will be graduate students who need to learn a language for their Ph.D. examinations. Besides developing and perfecting the materia, Skinner will have to build enough machines for an actual classroom trial when the grant runs out a year from July...
...scholars had succeeded in translating part of the oldest-known pharmacopoeia, dating from about 2100 B.C. The university's Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...
...first three Medical School professors (Anatomy and Surgery, Theory and Practice of Physic, and Chemistry and Materia Medica) did their teaching and demonstrating in the basement of Harvard Hall and Holden Chapel...