Word: microcosmes
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After assigning students to rooming groups, the deans place the groups in entryways. According to Sparagana, the deans aim to create "a microcosm of the College" in each dorm...
...what was perhaps a microcosm of Harvard's offense up to then, Hren was finally able to get the ball past Kathpal on her second free position shot in a thirty-second span...
...What we were seeing," says Hayflick, now a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, "was the concept of cellular aging: growing old in the microcosm of a Petri dish...
Given its streak of choosing the winning presidential candidate 11 times in a row, Delaware would seem to be a perfect microcosm of America. It has ethnic neighborhoods, wide swaths of farmland, wealthy suburbs, military bases and resort towns. Candidates for statewide office actually meet a large segment of the electorate during the campaign, and in tiny Georgetown, the Thursday after the election, the losing candidate rides alongside the winner in the "Return Day" parade. This intimacy may explain why the major statewide offices are evenly split between the parties. It seems Delaware, the First State, pays more attention...
Missouri, the birth state of Mark Twain and once the gateway to the West, the starting point of the Pony Express and the Santa Fe Trail, is a microcosm of America. Politically, it has voted for every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great...