Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple Virginia Woolf has turned her back on the microscopic detail of Naturalism, and like the French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME expresses her ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...
...committing & maintaining a public nuisance, conspiracy to prevent others from working, they were charged with violating a New York statute passed in 1881. "A person who wilfully and maliciously . . . breaks a contract of service or hiring, knowing . . . that the probable consequence of his so doing will be to endanger human life, or to cause grievous bodily injury, or to expose valuable property to destruction or serious injury, is guilty of a misdemeanor...
...savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both sweet and bitter, still others could detect no taste at all. Dr. Blakeslee declared his belief that differences of taste among human beings are inborn...
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned body in the U. S. Philosophy was once synonymous with science, and the society's usual convention agenda are almost wholly scientific, with frequent speculative spice and many a dash of human interest. Noteworthy discussions at last week's meeting...
...addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel disturbances, slight loss of weight, increased amiability and apparent sense of wellbeing. Curiously, the pupils of the ape addicts' eyes dilated, whereas those of human drug-takers contract. The sexual effect...