Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flaherty's novel of the same name, it tells with superb, ironic power the story of Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) and one night, his last, in the murky slums of Dublin. Implicit in its simple monstrous story is the portrait of a city, a revolution and a tragic human being, outlined against a background, shadowed and malevolent, of violence, murder, despair...
...Ralph Wiliard froze a guinea pig solid, then revived it. The guinea pig immediately nibbled a piece of spinach, apparently none the worse for refrigeration. Dr. Wiliard, 32, a swarthy, Russian-born chemist, next proposed to freeze & revive a dog, then a monkey, then an ape, then perhaps a human. His ultimate purpose: "To use freezing to kill bacteria of certain diseases while retaining suspended life in the tissues...
Rheumatic Fever & Spinach. Dr. James Fleece Rinehart of San Francisco found new ailments which attack human beings unless they load themselves with spinach and other sources of Vitamin C. One of the diseases is rheumatic fever, dread disease which sometimes leaves the hearts of children so leaky that all the rest of their lives they must avoid exertion. The other disease is rheumatoid arthritis (swelling and pain in the joints, particularly in the knees, elbows, wrists). That streptococci most probably cause rheumatic fever has long been suspected. Dr. Charles William Wainwright of Baltimore offered evidence that the streptococcus also...
...that the majority of businessmen actually favor his measures. Trade organizations seldom voice the real opinion of the businessmen they are supposed to represent, he declared, and he was sure that by & large Business is with him. What interested him about the Chamber speeches was that none considered the human side of current conditions, notably old age and unemployment factors...
There are some students of human character who support the theory that a man's true personality is revealed only under the influence of liquor. Be the student gifted with superior powers of deduction, however, he may draw interesting conclusions from the actions of men under great stress, as, for instance, in oral examinations...