Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better to abandon or postpone a part of a flight rather than endanger, if not sacrifice, human life...
From 1903 to the day of his death last October, Johns Hopkins' Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood. famed cancer pathologist, megaphoned to every human being with a mole upon his skin: "Beware of death-dealing black cancer! Watch that mole and, if it starts to grow, have it cut out before it is too late." Dr. Bloodgood believed with many another wise cancer specialist that it is worth scaring the wits out of 999 people in order to save the thousandth man from death by cancer...
...depress respiration less than does morphine. But "whether any of the substances possess addicting properties is very difficult to determine on animals, although efforts are being made to study this aspect of the problem on dogs and monkeys. However, the final test will have to be made on the human patient, and here [we have] the invaluable assistance of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...patience to apply them to the search for truth are monopolized by no country or race. Little Switzerland will receive five degrees, half as many as Germany; Denmark gets two as does Japan; the United States leads with fourteen followed by England with twelve. All fields of human knowledge are covered, at least indirectly. Science is heavily emphasized, but art, music, literature, law, history, finance, commerce, each presents at least one specialist. The famous universities of the Old World will send faculty members to Harvard, and among those of the United States are California, Chicago, Columbia, Michigan, Princeton and Yale...
Mankind never will know how much it owes to such men for the conquest of the woes and the lightening of the burdens of human life. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," with hardly a thought of material rewards for themselves, they quietly pursue their quests. Only at intervals does the world hear of them, as when they bestow some gift on their fellow-beings which makes all men their debtors. One is to be recognized at Harvard for his work with infectious diseases, another for his studies of the child mind, a third for his research...