Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Age into Youth. The rule that what is young must irrevocably grow old is almost universal in Nature. But not quite. The bones of animals generate a young cell called an osteoblast, which becomes a middle-aged cell called an osteoclast, which becomes an aged cell called a fibroblast, which ultimately dies. Dr. Franklin C. McLean and his University of Chicago co-worker fed parathyroid extract to aged fibroblasts, turned them into baby osteoblasts...
Professor Brinton is thoroughly consonant with the tendency of our age to view all men sympathetically. Modern historians cease to expect a great deal from human nature; they permit much greater play to the elements of Caesar and Croesus in mankind. Since men are what they are and not what they aspire to be, such an historical methodology is doubtless more scientific...
...prospect of a national system of health insurance to follow on the heels of the present old-age benefit plan, presages a major feature of the New Deal's social security plan. After the thundering approbation handed down by the country on election day, the signal has been set for full steam ahead and the theories nearest to the hearts of the administration are being rushed to practical completion. Perhaps for the first time in modern history, a nation will see its aged, its infirm and its unemployed transformed from destitute and dangerous drains on the mercies of charity...
...willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large, too radical, and it was argued that every cent available was needed for more urgent matters. Wages and profits together were low and any deductions for social insurance would have gone hard. Under these conditions the bills for employment, old-age and health indemnity lay unnoticed, waiting till times should improve...
Born in New York, Bert Lahr also, started his career in a "kid act", at the age of 16. He graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...