Word: originates
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...went further than Eliot in providing facilities that could sustain the more democratic ideals which had gradually been established at the university. In developing the residential House system during the late 1920s, Lowell specifically sought to diminish the tendency of students to form 'cliques based upon similarity of origin and upon wealth...
Steen said he has also posted an explanation of the virus, its origin and solutions on two computer newsgroups, harvard.hascs and harvard.general...
...ZEALOT ON ANY SIDE OF THE origin-of-species debate, but when I read the headline "Evolution's Big Bang," I got excited. It implied that a group of scientists has somehow figured everything out and that the Big Bang is no longer a theory but fact. But actually this concept of evolving life should still only be referred to as a theory, because it cannot be scientifically proved. DOUG WEST Lebanon, Oregon Via E-mail...
...find out what is going on; it inevitably requires the changing of an open mind as new evidence comes to light. Faith, on the other hand, is the blind acceptance of "explanations" without any hard evidence. It is preposterous for a closed-minded adherent of a prepackaged, supernatural "origin of species" theory to flaunt science's admitted lack of omniscience as support for a totally irrational dogma. ROBERT L. WOLKE Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
Oneness had a moral value for Brancusi, as both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...