Word: miasma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern problem with sensible emphasis on the need for right feeling among representative men. The ideas are not presented with as much persuasiveness as might be wished. Outstanding is the annoying fault of unnecessary repetition of phrases and explanations, as for example the constant definition of mana and miasma, which in the 538 pages of the book makes the reading frequently tedious. All the way through, there is a curious uncertainty on the part of the author in sensing what the reader knows and what needs explanation, so if the book had not been tested on an audience for timings...
...peddler. Rolling her rheumy eyes in coy alarm, she listened while the man attempted to persuade her that she needed a new pipe. When he fell silent she produced from her bosom a wooden object, notched, smoke-blackened, evil, stuffed it with tobacco, applied a match, puffed miasma into the peddler's face. She had smoked this pipe, she declared, for 65 years...
...Brought the science of physchology in America almost singlehanded out of the miasma of metaphysics into the clear white light of experimental rationalism. Pupil of Wilhelm Wundt, he caught the physiological genius of that great founder, and built his theory strictly on the neurological basis of the human body. Hall's wide-ranging, liberal and incisive intelligence took him into many special fields. It made him the dean of the genetic psychologists, with a sympathetic and encyclopedic knowledge of infancy and adolescence (the subject of his greatest work). It distinguished him in the comparative psychology of animals...
...With the miasma of fear and hatred arising from the passions of war still tending to obscure the fundamental issues of reconstruction the appropriation of ten million dollars by the House of Representative for the relief of starving women and children in Germany comes as a decided surprise. It is at once an evidence if a renewed sanity in political outlook and an indication of the seriousness of the food problem in Germany. As an expression of a forgiving spirit and a desire to alleviate unnecessary; suffering the bill should call forth only favorable comment, which even the suspicion that...