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Word: meri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful applicants for Guggenheim Fellowships included: "The recording, translating and annotating of the Hudhud, a series of epics chanted as work songs and at death wakes by the Ifugaos, a pagan, terrace-building people of the Philippine Islands"; "A comparative cyto-histological study of the meri-stems of buds and of tropical ferns, gym-nosperms and woody angiosperms"; "A comparative investigation of the neuropsychological determinants of the phenomena of dissociation"; "A spectroscopic study and analysis of gases of the volcano Mauna Loa." Says Miller (who was refused a Guggenheim): "A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aphrodite Ascending | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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