Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...version. He ended up in charge of a kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...
...conditioned before the operation is performed. In his words, "The mystery was--and still is--how the tails could remember anything. When the flatworm was cut in half, the head portion retained the brain and the bulk of the nervous system... Yet many of the tails showed almost perfect retention of the original training!" In an even more bizarre experiment, conditioned worms were chopped-up and fed to untrained cannibal worms, who subsequently responded to the light stimulus to an impressive degree. McConnell concludes that memory must be stored within rather than between cells, and that it must be chemical...
...believe that your reporter has left a mistaken impression in the minds of some readers, for many have already commented to me. I cited the statement, "You're talking to Harvard and Radcliffe students. If you want them to listen you can't talk about God," as a perfect example of the utter failure of some Protestant clergy to do the very thing for which they exist, i.e., to proclaim the word...
...report to the President and Fellows of Harvard College recommending establishment of the School envisioned the building of a "Library enriched with a collection of the most approved authors in anatomy, surgery, physic, chemistry, et cetera--a collection more perfect than any in America, as soon as circumstances will permit." One hundred and eighty-three years later, circumstances have permitted...
...Gottlieb's costumes, incidentally, were perfect...