Word: borderland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under "the threat of a Russian-American war arising out of conflict in the borderland . . . the British, the French and all the other Europeans see that they are placed between the hammer and the anvil." Their real aim now, said Lippmann, is to extricate themselves from the Russian-American conflict...
Professor to President. By 1927 Conant's researches in the borderland between organic and physical chemistry had earned him a solid scientific reputation, and the California Institute of Technology invited him to set up a new biological chemistry department. Anxious to keep Conant, Harvard promoted him to a full professorship, a few years later made him chairman of the chemistry department...
...British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland for readers who are too busy or too timid to explore for them selves the cold, dark, lonely places of the spirit...
...Arthur, a devout Quaker, lifelong teetotaler and bachelor, more philosopher than scientist, devoted his speculations mostly to the borderland between science and religion. Interested in the questions that science could not answer, he once remarked: "What do we really observe? Relativity theory has returned one answer-we only observe relations. Quantum theory returns another answer-we only observe probabilities...
When he showed a subject a flickering light, his brain-broadcasting instrument recorded flickering electrical impulses of the same frequency. This experiment revealed "an interesting borderland" between the visual area and the rest of the brain - the image spread out over a wider area, into parts of the brain not primarily concerned with sight. Dr. Adrian suggests that this spreading activity in the brain represents the reaction of the brain cells to the image, i.e., an approach to thinking. But his recordings of this complex process are so confusing and difficult to interpret that "the present technique of recording brain...