Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President: We are stricken by no plague of locusts. . . . Nature still offers her bounty, and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply...
...that much may be found in work itself. . . . Vigor belongs to spirituality and indolence belongs to sin. Since when has youth come to demand security and ceased to cry just for opportunity? . . . A mania has seized men to get things and do things easily. . . . God alone can change human lives and the church must learn to put this truth into practice...
...trips were very economical. To collect butterflies in Virginia, for example, a scientist requires little besides railroad fare and a net. One or two scientists collected material from the yachts of wealthy kudos-loving sportsmen. Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts Jr. revisited the Folsom deposits, oldest known site of human culture in the U. S. (about 20,000 years old). In Colorado he found one of the grooved Folsom arrow points actually imbedded in the vertebra of an extinct bison. Miss Frances Densmore continued recording Indian music, and Dr. J. R. Swanton pursued the route of Hernando de Soto through...
...experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
...human race was not yet ready to admit that it was being scourged by syphilis. Because the disease was generally contracted in the course of sexual misconduct, an enormous social taboo had developed. Victims suffered in silence or ignorance while Society took the moral view that they had simply got what was coming to them. To break down this taboo in the U. S. and tackle syphilis scientifically rather than morally is the high and burning purpose in the official life of Surgeon General Parran...