Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after that first frantic visit to the Rockefeller Institute Colonel Lindbergh went secretly to work there as a biomechanical assistant to Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel. Dr. Carrel was trying to keep human organs alive for long periods so that physiologists could study their reactions piecemeal. For more than 100 years physiologists had tried to do so, with no real success, ever since Frenchman Julien-Jean-Cesar Legallois (1770-1814) predicted: "If one could substitute for the heart a kind of injection ... of arterial blood, either natural or artificially made . . . one would succeed easily in maintaining alive indefinitely any part...
...produce chicks or kittens. Because Dr. Robert E. Cornish of Berkeley, Calif, has revived "dead" dogs by forcing relatively crude chemicals into their veins and then wobbling them on a seesaw, an unrestrained imagination last week could foresee Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh placing whole animals?chickens. cats, dogs, possibly superannuated human beings?in their wobble machine and keeping them alive indefinitely...
...Rockefeller Institute experimenters last week had no such fantastic ideas. They believe that knowledge of the human body is the sum of knowledge of each one of its parts. Hence they intend to study one organ at a time in their machine. Thus they hope to make the thyroid gland, the adrenals and each of the other endocrine glands yield their hormones in pure form and in such abundance that endocrinologists will no longer be obliged to haunt slaughterhouses for their supplies. Thus, too, they hope to watch hardening developing in arteries, goitres in thyroids, tuberculosis in lungs, rheumatic fever...
With attention concentrated on the fearful intrigue steadily tightening around Mose, readers may be slow in recognizing that Author Rylee has unobtrusively built him up as a strong character, a human being extraordinary in his selflessness, his patience and simple eloquence, his deep inner contentment with the seasonal simplicities of farm life. "De Lord done been trampled on befo. . ." he sermonizes. "An hit ain't never ruffle de Lord none. Dey done nail de Lord up an poke a knife in he side and done laid de crown o' thawns on he haid, an hit didn...
...pray that Thou will bless all the members of this House, the officers and all the employes and especially the newspaper correspondents, for they, too, are human and are Thy children...