Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been discovered for them, and of course greatly disappointed when told that the whole thing was questionable and never should have been printed in public places. Many medical men have been conditioned to believe that their doings and thinkings enjoy a sacred immunity from the ordinary processes of human curiosity. Well does TIME know the problem of reporting scientific news, but its responsibility toward Science differs no whit from its responsibility toward news of other human affairs...
...That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too-the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole...
...accident-five cars in one mess, seven killed on the spot, two dead on the way to the hospital, two more dead in the long run. . . . Three bodies out of one car were so soaked with oil from the crankcase that they looked like wet browrn cigars and not human at all; a man, walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite...
...prideful lot were the nerve specialists who met in London last week for an International Neurological Congress. To them, the brain, cathedral of human intelligence, is no more than 2½ lb. of raw meat, the cerebrospinal nervous system, conveyor of human will to muscles, a set of puppeteer's strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare...
...zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand was responsible for this tragedy, that hand was mine. . . . I must have omitted something...