Word: diffusionism
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The American Negro, says Zoologist Curt Stern of the University of California in Scientific American, is doomed to disappear through racial diffusion. As a group of mankind, American Negroes are relatively new. They have existed for only 300 years, and are already notably mixed. Dr. Stern figures from their blood...
This diffusion of talent and interests also characterizes the university's immersion in community life on a local and national scale. As a famous community of scholars, the university creates a reputation for the college so that in the minds of its students the two become synonymous terms.
When the trial began in Milan, Journalist Guareschi turned out to have a very poor case. He could not produce the purported original of the letter (it was in the hands of a shadowy, last-ditch Fascist living in Switzerland, who has had little luck in many attempts to peddle...
The U.S. built its reactors and its uranium isotope separation plant at the same time. The finished products of both (plutonium and U-235) could be used in bombs, but no one knew which process-if either-would work better. The British, noting U.S. success, were reasonably sure of getting...
But Holloway, who has spent $45 million on expansion since World War II, is a good deal more than a plumber. Crane, with 13 plants scattered across the U.S., Canada and England, now makes or distributes everything from colored bathroom fixtures, which it was the first (1928) to pioneer, to...