Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature," explained Dr. Wendell Holmes Tisdale, "there is no such thing as a pest. But in human economy, anything that competes with man for his means of subsistence may be considered a pest...
...years ago every other ship which docked in New York Harbor carried rats. Now only one out of twelve ships entering all U. S. harbors carries rats. Because rats harbor fleas which transmit dreadful bubonic plague to human beings. Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., upon noting the success of rat elimination aboard ships, last week happily announced that the danger of plague ever again reaching the U. S. from abroad is "almost eliminated...
...This year the Wallendas, originators of the breathtaking moving human pyramid on the high wire, and their Ringling colleagues, the Grotofents, have felt the pressure of competition from the Cole Bros.-Beatty team of the Gretonas. One of the Gretonas goes out on the wire and, holding precariously onto his balancing pole, lies down on his back and rolls over. The Wallendas and Grotofents now not only match this but, as if it were not enough to turn a spectator's head snowy white, send one of their number out on the wire to do a drunken rhumba...
...Alton, Ill. was at the last moment persuaded to exhibit his hulking 8 ft. 7 in. in his first public appearance. Thus in addition to long and long-memoried 8 ft. 6 in. Jack Earle of El Paso, Tex. Ringlings' is still able to boast THE TALLEST HUMAN BEING SINCE THE DAWN OF CREATION...
...self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling for her unfortunate examples...