Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jolliffe locates the appestat in the hypothalamus, site of the body's temperature-control, water balance and sleep-control mechanisms. It may be thrown out of kilter by injury or disease. But where there is no physical explanation for the appestat's demanding too much fuel, Dr. Jolliffe believes that the answer must be found in habit or conditioning. And it takes "time for habits to be overcome. "Eventually, however," he says, "if the reducer is conscientious, exerts his will power, and is, above all, a good sport, the appestat will usually return to a lower level...
...commission report paralleled the proposals Governor Paul A. Dever made a week ago when he called for construction of a state health center around the site of the new state chronic diseases hospital under construction in the Forest Hills section...
...Pope Damasus, who encouraged him to begin his translation of the Bible. At the same time his just but tactless condemnations of Roman social life as a "sinful Babylon" almost got him run out of town. After Damasus died, he prudently went off to Palestine to be near the site of his story. He spent the next 35 years in Bethlehem at a monastery he founded himself...
...Summer of 1930 a horse hauled a wooden building from its familiar site on Divinity Avenue, and dumped it off across the street. Sixteen years after this transplanting, that building became the Modern Language Center...
Cold Calculation. In Decatur, Ga., physicians interested in establishing a large new clinic were just as interested in changing the name of the site they had chosen: Cemetery Street...