Word: microcosm
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...expose, The Hospital conceives of the big modern hospital as a social microcosm where conditions become specially favorable for study of society with its hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon. Revolving from furnace room to Surgery, from the laundry to superintendent's office, it includes autopsy room, nurses' quarters, wards, clinic, even a scene in which a tugboat is loaded with consignments for potter's field...
...Deal Olympus, flatly plumped for Representative Otha Donner Wearin in this week's Democratic Senatorial primary (TIME, June 6). What would otherwise have been a routine performance amid the fields of waving corn, with Senator Guy Mark Gillette walking sedately off renominated, was instantly transformed into a microcosm of the national political situation, a furious hurly-burly involving scores of participants far beyond Iowa's borders...
...first four constants are fundamental to Quantum Mechanics, which deals with the microcosm of the atom. The last two are fundamental to four-dimensional spacetime, which deals with the macrocosm of the universe. The velocity of light, c, is fundamental to both. According to Eddington, c is the natural "grain" of world structure. It is the velocity which cannot be surpassed, the speed at which masses become infinite, clocks stop, measuring rods contract to zero...
...jail cell at Terre Haute, Waldo Frank found a microcosm of the U. S. jungle: "In the Terre Haute jail I had our world with me: the atavistic, careless and abnormal; the future, striving to be; the dolorous, dangerous present. I felt at home there...
...book, Morison finds the major value of Harvard in the heterogeneity of the individuals who make up this "microcosm of the world in which we live...