Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newly found fossils in Nebraska supported the view that the camel and rhinoceros went to Asia from places of origin in what...
...defeated man may actually become ill. The diseases may be "real enough, even though they have no organic basis . . . the hysterias . . . and war neuroses, miscalled shell shock in the World War, have this origin. When a soldier reaches a point where he can no longer stand up under the horrors he must face . . . and yet his spirit will not allow him to turn back, then he may suddenly go blind, lose the use of his arms or legs, or he may forget his name and everything connected with his identity and wander...
Last week plump, 52-year-old Franz Werfel, now living in California, did much to satisfy the curiosity of his Catholic admirers. In a letter to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans, he wrote: "I am ... a Jew by origin and have never been baptized. On the other hand, I wish to profess here before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight...
Attorney General Biddle asks us to regard all aliens of Italian origin as friendly. Rabbi Irving F. Reichert (TIME, Nov. 9) urges that the policy be extended to German aliens. . . . Each case should be decided upon its own merits...
Last week Dr. Pierre Auger, who discovered these showers at his Paris laboratory in 1938, gave a new theory of their origin to the American Physical Society, meeting at the University of Chicago. They do not come from outer space as electrons: that would require a million billion electron volts. More probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound...