Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, the accident which crushed his hands and ruined his hope of becoming a professional organist, a superintendency of schools in Oregon, and nation-wide wandering as a Chautauqua lecturer. Out of this he has the formula for successfully throwing oil on trouble human waters. Remembering his youth, he gives organized charity the sizeable contributions he receives from well-wishers...
...John Campbell Merriam, 66, geologist, paleontologist, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; the American Institute's gold medal; for discoveries in paleontology, promotion of research, recognition of the place of science in human affairs. Dr. Merriam's broad surveys of fossils and artifacts convince him that man in the U. S. is at least 100,000 years old. Dr. William Francis Giauque, 40, of the University of California, holder of the U. S. record for low temperature (.16° C. above Absolute Zero), discoverer of two variant forms of oxygen weighing 17 and 18 atomic units instead...
...Fishberg, who does not know how to bake potatoes in her kitchen stove, learned the particular symptoms of fever by baking healthy human beings at a temperature of 106° F. She used one of the big radiothermic ovens which General Electric's Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney designed and loaned to a few U. S. hospitals for the heat treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea (TIME, April 22, et ante). For proof that her test subjects develop pure fevers and nothing else, Dr. Fishberg usually heats them until fever blisters form on their lips. As demonstration of how to offset...
...veils of romance which have made his subject an almost legendary character by fitting them into the whole pattern of contemporary events. But this is not a part of the general fad of debunking history for in his true surroundings and with an understanding of his natural abilities and human faults, we cannot fall to appreciate more fully the work of this soldier who was also a mechanical genius and brilliant archaeologist...
...those in the audience will soon realize it is the rare wine, the sparkling champague of other days that is being tasted, rather than the heavy bodied liqueurs which are usually expected from classicists. Indeed, the presentation for wide-spread attention of the lighter, the more pleasant, the human side of those who strolled by the Tiber is a laudable endeavor, "quo quiddem opere quid potest esse pracclarius...