Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powers of vinegar is that it is unusually rich in potassium, and he rates this as the element most important in stimulating growth. In cold fact, even apple-cider vinegar (in the amounts he prescribes) is decidedly poor in potassium. And although this element is essential to life, its relationship to growth is unknown...
...world's industrial "north" form a committee, with the U.S. as full partner, to coordinate and share the burden of assistance to the nonindustrialized "southern" regions. "If twelve years ago the balance of the world turned on the recovery of Western Europe, now it turns on a right relationship of the industrial north of the globe to the developing south," he said...
...told her psychiatrist not long ago that she had put a piece of a friend's wedding cake under her pillow, he answered ironically: "At last you're taking active steps." Says she: "I don't know why, but I can't make a mature relationship based on trust, respect and recognition." She adds: "Most of Annie Sullivan is myself. It's my own blindness I draw on, my unawareness of myself...
Lowell's regime brought reform to both the housing and the academic programs for undergraduates. But despite his preoccupation with College reform, Lowell never forgot the University's relationship to the "outside world." The same conviction which made him fight to restore an atmosphere of intellectual excitement within the College, made him fight to keep the University in close contact with the "outside." Above all, he believed that complacency could lead an institution only to decay. Lowell, who liked some controversy because it kept issues alive and people alert, wanted to make Harvard not an ingrown "ivory tower...
...goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...