Science, Volume 47

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John Michels (Journalist)
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1918
Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science.

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Page 59 - Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun, He from the east his flaming road begin ; Or she from west her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid ; Leave them to God above, him serve and fear.
Page 489 - CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Page 576 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim...
Page 277 - Vice-Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Chairman of the Commission ; Prof.
Page 573 - THE wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are. There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.
Page 510 - Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the General Medical Board of the Council of National Defense, says: "Great as has been the response to the appeal for doctors, it must be greater.
Page 416 - Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station...
Page 386 - Corps shall be in response to a request from the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service...
Page 457 - Washington, has been granted leave of absence for the duration of the war. He is now conducting research work in the development department of the Western Electric Company of New York.
Page 581 - States — comprising the six New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia...

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