Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alcohols than in the chemistry of benzoates, I am not qualified to comment on the chemist's claims. But as a' bored layman who is tired of all this prattle about professional ethics, and with the A.M.A. in its sanctimonious stand as the sole arbiter of human health; I am vaguely reminded of one Louis Pasteur, chemist, and of how the medical confession, in a united front, battled his method of inoculation with virus to combat and cure hydrophobia...
...Celebration. The first will be a complete record, including the texts of the principal speeches. Three other volumes will record the three collaborative symposia held as a part of the Tercentenary Conference, namely "Independence, Convergence, and Borrowing in Institution, Thought, and Art," "Authority and the Individual," and "Factors Determining Human Behavior." The individual papers in the physical sciences and biology will be published by the authors through their own channels, it being felt that such papers would be more useful to Scholars if published in the usual technical journals. The four volumes to be published by the University will...
...large, however, the new Yale plan rings true. The sum of human knowledge represents too large a sea upon which to set the unwary undergraduate adrift. Much criticism, often from. Yale undergraduates themselves, has been heard concerning a student's undirected, purposeless effort. Some integration, some degree of "genuine mastery of some one field", in President Angell's words, seems necessary in the modern world...
...Harold Jeffreys suggested that if the star actually sideswiped the sun, the pulled-out gas masses would be twirled between the two like a cigaret rolled between two human palms. Professor Edward Arthur Milne, famed relativist, suggested that there may be several different kinds of time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased...
...Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes of ruins that call to mind the brevity of human life, invokes the stars and the sea as symbols of permanence, speculates on the prehistoric innocence of African natives...