Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over & above specific differences hangs a divergence in national viewpoint: the fact that the U.S., by instinct and origin, emotionally responds to colonial peoples' cry for freedom-while its best friend is frankly in the colonial business...
Students packed the large lounge of Harkness Commons yesterday to hear Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Greece discuss "The Origin of Monastic Orders in Eastern and Western Churches" at the Law School Coffee Hour...
...change from life in the womb to the world outside is, to Gesell, only an uncommonly striking and abrupt phase of this continuous development. And he includes mental growth along with physical growth. "It is probable," he writes, "that all mental life has a motor basis and a motor origin. The non-mystical mind [i.e., the mind when not engaged in pure reverie] must always take hold. Even in the rarefied realms of conceptual reasoning we speak of intellectual grasp . . . Thinking might be defined as a comprehension and manipulation of meanings. Accordingly, thought has its beginnings in infancy...
...Americans? Most are career diplomats, painstaking, patient men who have come up the long ladder through minor embassy jobs to their final rewards. The typical career diplomat was born on the Eastern seaboard and graduated from an Ivy League college (though the younger, rising generation is more scattered in origin and education). His training makes him an observer rather than a doer, a compromiser rather than a shaker, a man of caution rather than a man of decision. Only a rare few have private means of their own, and except in the very biggest missions, riches are no longer...
...laymen in the ways of multiple sclerosis; $388,000 has gone into research. So far, nobody knows what causes the nerve sheaths in the spine and brain to degenerate, so that nerves become useless. But Manhattan's Neurological Institute is working on the possibility of an allergic origin for the disease; Tulane University is checking the viruses as possible culprits...