Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that offered themselves to the Bureau scientists on the second floor of Hemingway Gymnasium as human guinea pigs, only one was a hopelessly glare-blind individual. Two of the men were half blind, and one fellow, in a brown suit, could see the man on the miniature highway as clearly as a far-seeing child of six. He said he was a Senior...
Lost Horizon (Columbia). As soon as Director Frank Capra read James Hilton's prizewinning, million-copy novel, he wanted to screen it. He says: "The story had bigness. It held a mirror up to the thoughts of every human being on earth...
...listeners take to mean that she was with Beelzebub. After that only Roger's opportune horseback arrival could possibly save her life. In spite of valiant effort by a harassed cast, the dialog is of the prithee and methinks kind and never gets the strophe of real human talk. MacMurray, heretofore a trade emblem of flip 20th-century youth, invents a kind of brogue which fails to transport him back two centuries and a half. Best shots: careful and authentic reproductions of colonial candle-dripping, house-raising parties, medical methods...
...aircraft carriers to 50 or 100 miles from the coast, attack New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis by air. Lieut.-Col. Prentiss holds that, if such a fantastic possibility materialized, incendiary bombs and high explosives would be more harmful than gas. To be effective, gas requires masses of human beings at ground level and without adequate shelter. War gas is heavy. Even if the enemy had the tremendous number of planes and material to blanket one square mile of Manhattan, the inhabitants would need only to seek upper stories of houses and buildings, close their windows and wait...
Because the world's heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...