Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were half a dozen houses and dinner tables in Cambridge to which he went with pleasure, houses where he seemed to find a solace in the neighborhood of his kind. But human beings were an exceptional luxury. He had never learned to expect them. They never became necessities of his daily life, and I doubt if he missed them when they were absent...
...into the possible products from petroleum waste (crude oil after gasoline and other products have been extracted). Fresh attacks upon this problem have already yielded a new alcohol, called isopropyl. The peculiarity of this alcohol is that, unlike all others, it has no exhilarating effect when taken into the human system. If it can be used in industry there will be no temptation for bootleggers to "denature" it and sell it for drink...
Last week, bandages were removed and Mrs. Wagoner did see. Her first remarks are not only a human document, but illustrate that the consequences of such operations may be as important to psychology as to personal happiness. Mrs. Wagoner described her sensations as follows...
...hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them. Approximating novels in manner and matter two of the longest represent the author at his best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying...
...Hrdlička, who a fortnight ago predicted intellectualized human hobgoblins of the future (TIME, April 29), and last week declined to dissect his dead friend (see below), eyed his Academy colleagues and told them that they were on the average more robust and healthy than the average U. S. citizen, that their heads as well as their minds were bigger...