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In fact, the recent warnings about the use of X-rays have introduced fears and ambiguities of action which now require more detailed understanding, and thus in this instance, science has momentarily aggravated our fears.
Let us survey for a moment the development of modern thought -- turning our attention from the Reformation toward the revolutionary and romantic movements that follow and dwelling finally on more recent decades.
Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.
-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.
Slightly more than 5,000 boats were registered with the Coast Guard prior to the recent passage of the state boating law.
But more important, we believe, it must concentrate on the development of entirely new concepts in textile processing as do the Unifil loom winder and our more recent Uniconer automatic coning machine.
For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;
and much more commonly in recent years, the engineer who found that other duties interfered with -- or eliminated -- his engineering contributions.
`` A recent, and more pertinent action, has been the establishment of a technical staff reporting to the vice-president for Engineering.
There is much that many industries can continue to learn from some of the more recent developments described below.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, plastics units now account for more than 50% of all sign sales.
As you've doubtless forgotten the circumstances in the press of more recent depredations, permit me to recapitulate them briefly.
Before considering more recent activities, we should note another important aspect of demography in Belgian Africa.
The recent federal government's student-loan program is another step in the direction of making higher education more available to lower-status youth.
In recent times, when sexual matters began to be discussed more scientifically and more openly, the emotional aspects of virginity received considerable attention.
And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.
One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.
I was curious to know if Lumumba's death, which is surely among the most sinister of recent events, would elicit from `` our '' side anything more than the usual, well-meaning rhetoric.
There has been more activity across the state line in Massachusetts than in Rhode Island in recent weeks toward enforcement of the Sunday sales laws.
West Virginia toll bonds have defaulted in interest for months, and, despite recent improvement in revenues, holders of the bonds are faced with more of the same.
Astrophotography has become more popular for amateurs in recent times, as relatively sophisticated equipment, such as high quality CCD cameras, has become more affordable.
Some more recent studies have used the word anthophyte to describe a group which includes the angiosperms and a variety of fossils ( glossopterids, Pentoxylon, Bennettitales, and Caytonia ), but not the Gnetales.

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While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),
Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).
Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably correct technically although historically false, etymology has been suggested: anode, from the Greek anodos, ' way up ', ' the way ( up ) out of the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.
Since the later discovery of the electron, an easier to remember, and more durably technically correct ( although historically false ), etymology has been suggested: cathode, from the Greek kathodos, ' way down ', ' the way ( down ) into the cell ( or other device ) for electrons '.
The etymology of the name is disputed ; an alternative name of the dance is stantipes, which suggests that one foot was stationary during the dance ; but the more widely accepted etymology relates it to estamper, to stamp the feet.
The supposition that the early < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > vidula was adopted independently in more than one < nowiki > language < nowiki ></ nowiki > would account adequately for all the < nowiki ></ nowiki > forms ; on the other hand, * fiÞulôn-may be an < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > word of native etymology, though no satisfactory < nowiki ></ nowiki > derivation has been found.
So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.
The May 15, 1843 issue of the official Mormon periodical Times and Seasons contains an article, purportedly written by Joseph Smith, Jr., deriving the etymology of the name " Mormon " from English " more " + Egyptian mon, " good ", and extolling the meaning as follows:
" This connects the future patriarch's name with nāḥam, " comfort ", but it seems better related to the word nûaḥ, meaning " rest ", and is more a play on words than a true etymology.
In English, swears and curse words tend to be more often Germanic than Latin in terms of etymology ( linguistic origin ).
Though the etymology of the word ' panettone ' is rather mundane, three more complex and fanciful folk etymologies have arisen.
See Grad ( Slavic settlement ) for more complete etymology.
Although the patterns are inconsistent, when English spelling rules take into account syllable structure, phonetics, etymology and accents, there are dozens of rules that are 75 % or more reliable.
Two more pioneering works produced during the Han Dynasty are Fangyan, the first Chinese work concerning dialects, and Shiming, devoted to etymology.
" This reversal of fortune must be caused by the tragic hero's hamartia, which is often mistranslated as a character flaw, but is more correctly translated as a mistake ( since the original Greek etymology traces back to hamartanein, a sporting term that refers to an archer or spear-thrower missing his target ).
The fact that classical Greek authors often used eponymous explanations to explain away names through folk etymology makes it more likely that Ithakos derives from Ithaca rather than vice versa.
" Janda ( 2010 ) accepts the etymology but proposes the more cosmological interpretation of " he who impels the ( world -) tree.
The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.
A more recent etymology is that Kokopelli means literally " kachina hump ".
Another, much more believable etymology for the name is insisted on by speakers of Wichita, the language of the tribe which used to live in the area but now lives mostly around Anadarko, Oklahoma.
This etymology would be more in accord with Varro's.
However, an alternative, more obscure etymology exists which suggests the name means " promontory into marsh ", which would make sense considering that Frodsham had a promontory castle very close to marshland.
However, Bailey was never explicit about the etymology of the word, and it has been suggested that it is a contraction of the words cultigen and variety, which seems more appropriate.

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