Word: spencerian
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...that the fish were a little too considerately shrouded in nostalgic midnight. The denizens were separated in numerous small tanks, in dramatic contrast to the Florida occanariums I had visited in which large and small, carnivorous and vegetarian, hostile and affable fish were promiscuously mixed in huge tanks with Spencerian vengeance. It enforced a certain startling realization of the multitudinousness of the sea: but fish which are not agitated by the threat of imminent engorgement are much more tractable to observation...
...from Portugal in 1822 did not create a pantheon of army heroes or a military history that put its people in debt to soldiers. Today, Brazil's military organization is run by a bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced by the tenets of Comtian and Spencerian Positivism.* In a land that is being torn by a struggle between tradition and modernization, the army-frequently accused of being right wing-is actually a major vehicle for reform...
...attempt to preserve the margins of income that can be secured by greater skill or experience -and it is the real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
Penicillin. The meeting's most popular feature was the lectures on penicillin. Dr. John Hinchman Stokes of Philadelphia reported excellent results with penicillin in late syphilis, showed slides of the handwriting of paretics to illustrate their dramatic improvement from illegibility to Spencerian clarity as treatment progressed. Other penicillin notes...
Back from Chief Rockwell came a sheet of White House stationery on which the White House's veteran penman, Adrian Barclay Tolley, had traced in spidery Spencerian the following message...