Word: personality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire issue to this collaboration between science and architecture. One section deals with heat, a vastly complicated subject. Mere control of temperature and humidity is not enough: the air must have the proper amount of movement. The walls of the room must be at the right temperature. A person can have chills in a room with cold walls, even though the air around him is comfortably warm...
...Guthrie, putting oldsters who have slight mental quirks into already crowded mental hospitals is far from the best answer. Besides, some old people now in mental institutions are in good shape compared to some outside. Dr. Guthrie's advice to well-meaning relatives: "As long as an aged person is competent, the best plan of living is his own plan. He will use his past experiences to his own advantage...
Miss Heaton felt that the average per person compared favorably with previous records, since no minimum was set for individual contributions this year. "We missed our goal by only one percent," she said, and explained that last year's goal of five dollars per person resulted in an individual average of only...
...same with Washington, or Daniel Boone, or John James Audubon, or Henry Clay. But in Sunday school, he was told of "a Figure for whom was made an infinitely more enormous claim than for any of the others." The picture showed him as "a pale and posturing person with immoderately long, silky hair . . . who clutched a kind of diaphanous drapery gracefully about him" with an expression of "simpering vapidity...
...life, in the grand manner that makes modern naturalism seem flat and bloodless. "The boldness of her ease upon the stage," Critic John Mason Brown once wrote, "is on occasion as uncomfortable to watch as it is to see a guest making himself too much at home in another person's house...