Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many scholars and teachers who hold permanent faculty appointments in the University, five hold a position which represents one of the highest academic distinctions attainable in this country. They are all University Professors--men free to investigate and to participate in any phase of Harvard's intellectual life, unrestrained by the usual departmental bound-aries...
...These would not be research professorships,--inspired teaching along unconventional lines would be an important phase of the work. Such posts would afford an unusual opportunity for brilliant and imaginative men: the positions by their very nature would be a challenge,--a challenge which must be answered by earnest attempts to achieve that synthesis of modern knowledge which the world demands with so much insistence...
Katzenbach, who attacked the deficiency of transport facilities in the latest Reporter magazine, scored Wilson for giving the Air Force the responsibility of carrying troops and tactical aviation. This is a phase of operations which is of lesser concern to the Air Force than to the Army, the author said...
Egypt, like all other nations, has a special fellow feeling for those nations which share its cultural traditions and for those ex-colonial nations which are in a similar phase of transition to independent democracy and economic progress. But the idea of trying to create an Arab empire or of attempting to dominate such an empire is repugnant to Egypt...
...constructed the general adaptation syndrome, or G.A.S. Under this theory, the immediate response of the human or any other animal to a challenging stimulus is the alarm reaction-the mobilization for fight or flight marked by drops in body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar. This first or shock phase may last from a few minutes to 24 hours; before it is over, the body mobilizes for counter-shock with an increased supply of ACTH from the pituitary to the adrenal glands. This stage is marked by increased resistance to the stress. But it cannot last indefinitely: comes the final...