Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to conceive. This is assumed to be due to the fact that in these cases the fetal circulatory systems remain independent, though proof of this assumption is obviously very hard to obtain. The fertility of these particular female twins would thus be exactly analogous to the situation in human mixed twins, and in species normally bearing litters where there is no common blood supply and where both sexes are usually normal...
Britain & the U. S. "My country and the countries which compose your mighty union are among the protagonists of the idea that peace rather than war is the normal state of human relations, within and among nations...
...Only problem was to find the money-a problem complicated by President Roosevelt's announced determination to balance the budget (see p. 17). After a huddle with the President and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Mr. Wallace declared with engaging vagueness: "Money undoubtedly can be found somewhere. Human ingenuity can meet the situation...
...Perfect Specimen (Warner Bros.) experiments with the solemn hypothesis that a boy may be nurtured to-all-round perfection in a sort of social vacuum; but that when he is tested against assorted worldliness he will relapse into human frailty. Irish Cinemactor Errol Flynn, a godlike young man of limited acting ability, performs the title role, and in demonstrating his perfection is at one point required to take most of his clothes off.* In this picture he labors under the screen name of Gerald Beresford Wicks, who has been schooled in all the arts and sciences by a bossy grandmother...
With the development of science has come greater and greater knowledge of the functions and structure of the human body. ". . . one problem," writes Dr. Rhine, "remains conspicuously unsolved. It is the greatest of all puzzles about the nature of man. 'What is the human mind? Where does it belong, if anywhere, in the scheme of our knowledge as a whole?'" This is the puzzle that this book and, more important, these experiments, have attempted to solve. Whether they have is a question not to be answered at once, but certainly they have awakened the knowledge that there are "new frontiers...