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  • Even practical students of Nature, such as Oken, did homage to the general tendency which had absorbed all the eager spirits of the vanguard of human advancement, amongst them Froebel himself.

    Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889

  • There is not the smallest question that Owen wrote both the article "Oken" and the "Archetype Book," which appeared in its second edition in French -- why, I know not.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Even practical students of Nature, such as Oken, did homage to the general tendency which had absorbed all the eager spirits of the vanguard of human advancement, amongst them Froebel himself.

    Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817

  • There is not the smallest question that Owen wrote both the article "Oken" and the "Archetype Book," which appeared in its second edition in French ” why, I know not.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • : Huxley wrote to Darwin (April 18th, 1864), "There is not the smallest question that Owen wrote both the article 'Oken' and the

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

  • The results are "disappointing," said Emily Oken, a professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, who wrote an editorial to accompany the paper but wasn't involved in the study.

    Fish Oil Study Finds Little Benefit for Pregnant Women Shirley S. Wang 2010

  • Pregnant women should eat plenty of fish, concluded Harvard Medical School assistant professor and Project Viva investigator Emily Oken, but they should choose varieties low in mercury and high in the “good” omega-3 fats, such as sardines and salmon.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Beginning with physiography (Green's name for natural history as the study of natura naturata), this scale proceeds to "physiology" or the study of the powers behind nature, the natura naturans that is the subject of German Naturphilosophie in the work of the early Schelling, Lorenz Oken and British thinkers such as John Hunter and John Abernethy.

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • As Emily Oken of Project Viva suggests, we may use it to identify candidates for intervention: the children of women who had diabetes or gained excessive weight during pregnancy, for example, could be offered guidance on exercise and weight management.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Co-star of the hit Disney Channel show, Hannah Montana, starring teen sensation, Miley Cyrus, Musso opened up to us about the blessings and challenges of playing \ "Oliver Oken\" on the hit show.

    Jeff Rivera: Hannah Montana's Mitchel Musso 2009

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