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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.

more and folklore
The work done by the analysts, the men who really know what folklore is all about, has no more appeal than any other work of a truly scientific sort and reaches a limited, learned audience.
As a result, most people don't have more than a vague idea what folklore actually is ; ;
They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).
However, over time, many artists have begun to focus more on topics like the seasons ( particularly winter ), nature, mythology, folklore, philosophy and fantasy.
The Norwegian expressions seldom appear in genuine folklore, and when they do, they are always used synonymous to huldrefolk or vetter, a category of earth-dwelling beings generally held to be more related to Norse dwarves than elves which is comparable to the Icelandic huldufólk ( hidden people ).
The elves in this story are more alike those of traditional Danish folklore, who were beautiful females, living in hills and boulders, capable of dancing a man to death.
It was met by approving reviews and significantly influenced later research on folklore and, more generally, structural semantics.
Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).
Manx dictionaries though give Hop-tu-Naa (), generally glossing it as " Hallowe ' en ", same as many of the more Manx-specific folklore collections.
In other words, the kelpie of folklore has been transformed into a more realistic and contemporary notion of the creature.
He appears in folklore as a trickster, and in County Mayo thunderstorms were referred to as battles between Lugh and Balor, so he is sometimes considered a storm god: Alexei Kondratiev notes his epithet lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker ") and concludes that " if his name has any relation to ' light ' it more properly means ' lightning-flash ' ( as in Breton luc ' h and Cornish lughes )".
Additionally, both the terms strigoi and moroi are traditionally closely associated with both pricolici and vârcolaci, and while modern fiction makes a clear distinction between the terms ( with strigoi and moroi being in usage more a reference to the vampiric than the lycanthropic, and the latter in turn referring more to " living " as opposed to undead vampires ), older folklore leaves them not always so easily differentiated, especially with regional variants.
One of the most important developments in the study of proverbs ( as in folklore scholarship more generally ) was the shift to more ethnographic appraoches in the 1960s.
The weretiger replaces the werewolf in shapeshifting folklore in Asia ; in India they were evil sorcerers while in Indonesia and Malaysia they were somewhat more benign.
Many of them were absorbed by more powerful divinities, and some like the vegetation goddesses Ariadne and Helen survived in Greek folklore together with the cult of the " divine child ", who was probably the precursor of Dionysos.
As a consequence, their perception in western popular culture in the 20th century was based more on such legend and folklore than on the historical spies of the Sengoku period.
According to folklore, a lychee tree that is not producing much fruit can be girdled, leading to more fruit production.
This is presented as a dynastic marriage in early texts, but folklore preserves a more elaborate story, reminiscent the story of Zeus and Cronus from Greek mythology.
The description of Unktehi or Unktena is, however, more similar to that of a Lindorm in Northern Europe, especially in Southern Scandinavia, and most of all as described in folklore in Eastern Denmark ( including the provinces lost to Sweden in 1658 ).
In spite of the clichéd modern folklore that women demand more foreplay and require more time to become physically aroused, recent scientific research refutes that myth.
The more humorous version, according to Euler B. Thompson, has a bit more folklore attached.

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