Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb , 1859-1924, American physiologist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Strasbourg, 1884. He came to the United States in 1891 and taught at Bryn Mawr, the Univ. of Chicago, and the Univ. of California. From 1910 he was a member of the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller Univ.). Best known for his tropism theory and for his experiments in inducing parthenogenesis and regeneration by chemical stimulus, he also propounded the mechanistic philosophy that all ethics were the outgrowth of humanity's inherited tropisms. He was a founder and editor of the Journal of General Physiology. His works include The Mechanistic Conception of Life (1912), Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization (1913), and The Organism as a Whole (1916).
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To Adopt an Animal; Chauncy, a 1-year-old female shorthair, and Jager, a 21/2-year-old neutered German shepherd, may be adopted from the Loudoun County Animal Shelter.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/26/2004; 273 words
; The Loudoun County Animal Shelter, at 39820 Charles Town Pike (Route 9), offers pets for adoption by residents of Loudoun, Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier and Prince William counties...
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Charles M. Good Jr., The Steamer Parish: the rise and fall of missionary medicine on an African frontier.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; CHARLES M. GOOD JR., The Steamer Parish...UMCA's journal, Central Africa. Charles Good follows Vaughan in utilizing Central...special influence of the steamships Charles Janson and Chauncy Maples in shaping the Nyasa diocese...
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CHARLES MEE COMES AROUND TO `FULL CIRCLE'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/13/2000; ; 700+ words
; CAMBRIDGE - Playwright and author Charles L. Mee has fused his dramatic personal history with his view...straight-backed chair at a dining room table in a tasteful Chauncy Street apartment, his crutches leaning against an adjacent chair...
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Christmas Present A local scene shop, a visual designer and the right kind of snow come together to re-create Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale in a department store's windows
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/5/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...the store windows tell "A Christmas Carol" -- as though Charles Dickens' classic tale were staged by a bunch of kids. Modern...text. Six enact the story itself. The tale begins at the Chauncy Street corner and continues along Summer Street; and it continues...
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America's Royal Love Affair
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/19/1994; ; 649 words
; ...through that Prince Charles had admitted committing...London to speak to Chauncy Featherbottom...family?" "Look, Chauncy, we're not judging Prince Charles, but Americans...last question, Chauncy. After Charles's admission...
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Q & A
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/11/2002; ; 643 words
; ...portion of Marlborough - was originally known as Chauncy Village, after the Rev. Charles Chauncy (1592-1672), the second president of Harvard...Massachusetts" (1984). According to Allen, Chauncy earned his land the old-fashioned way - as...
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AN OLD PROBLEM COMES TO LIGHT AGAIN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...a one-way), just before Chauncy. As a result, the scaffolding...that SHOULD give traffic on Chauncy Street the right of way...a few drivers charging into Chauncy Street traffic with nary a...follow the same route until Charles Circle. To accommodate the...
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The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in the Early American Republic.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...satire as an attack on the Reverend Charles Chauncy's universalist argument presented...eternal damnation of sinners, Chauncy aligned himself with Pelagian tendencies...went well beyond his critique of Chauncy's heresy to include progressivist...
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INSPIRED BY NEED; CNY PROSTHETIC CENTER PROVIDES ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.(Neighbors Syracuse)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...after him, then his grandson, Chauncy W. Frees. My father in 1943...field, then apprenticed under Chauncy, who took him on as a partner. Chauncy was the last male in the line...person you most admire? Dr. Charles Holder, he was a trilateral...
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INFORMATION ISSUED BY U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ON JAN. 26: NIGHTCLUB OWNER SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON FOR LAUNDERING DRUG MONEY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 1/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...Attorneys Troy Rivetti and Charles A. Eberle, from May 2003...Vernon Jackson was operating Chauncy's nightclub and that he and...Pittsburgh - Rock Jungle and Chauncy's. In particular, in May...went out of business, and Chauncy's had become a target of...
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Charles Chauncy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Charles Chauncy The liberal religious views of the American clergyman Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) influenced 19th-century theology in New England. Charles Chauncy was the great grandson of Charles Chauncy...
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Chauncy, Charles (1705-1787)
Book article from: American Eras
Charles Chauncy (1705-1787) Liberal congregationalist Bosto n Roots. Charles Chauncy spent most of his life in Boston...Edward M. Griffin, Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705 – 1787...
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Chauncy, Charles
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Chauncy, Charles (1705–87), pastor of the First Church of Boston (1727–87), opposed Jonathan Edwards and the revivalists...
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1754-1783: Religion: Publications
Book article from: American Eras
...a leading Anglican missionary; Charles Chauncy, A Compleat View of Episcopacy...bishops to the American colonies; Chauncy, Salvation for All Men (Boston...traditional Calvinists believed; Chauncy, Twelve Sermons (Boston: D...
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1783-1815: Religion: Publications
Book article from: American Eras
...the clergy as tyrants set on destroying free society; Charles Chauncy, The Benevolence of the Deity (Boston: Printed by...Episcopal Church in America (Philadelphia: Printed by Charles Cist, 1785) — first edition of the basic...
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