Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cows & Grass. When animals, including milk cows, eat plants containing strontium 90, they reject it selectively in favor of calcium. Therefore milk contains less strontium 90 in proportion to calcium than the grass or alfalfa that the cows eat. This means that humans who get most of their calcium from milk will collect less strontium 90 than people who get their calcium direct from vegetable sources...
...sphinx, speaks only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept, but he is within the predetermined framework, which makes the possibility of an important experience slight...
...achieved it without accepting any troublesome reservations, or having to pose a vote of confidence. But Mollet's victory did not mean that France is irrevocably committed to join the Common Market. Remembering the European Defense Community, which the French Assembly also approved "in principle" only to reject when it came up for final ratification, France's would-be partners in the Common Market cautiously refrained from premature rejoicing...
...Hell, it is because we have willed to do so ... So the Lady Julian said that in her visions she 'saw no Hell but sin' and St. Catherine of Genoa said that the fire of the torment was the light of God as experienced by those who reject...
What Wins a Prize? "It is as much a mistake to accept a thing without understanding it as to reject it without understanding it," Sculptor Jo Davidson wrote at the time when Manhattan's famed 1913 Armory Show plunged the U.S. headlong into modern art. Davidson's counsel was still being pondered this week as museum doors opened on the two biggest prize-giving events of the year. Washington's 25th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago's 62nd American Exhibition of Painting...