Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's campus. Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research...
...insurance in force, assets of $2,500,000,000. A significant part of the prudence which encompassed those magnitudes is due, all insurance men agree, to Dr. Hoffman's analyses of vital statistics and studies of the various things that kill insurable human beings. He has published some 1,200 articles, pamphlets and books on vital statistics, occupational diseases, tropical mortality, leprosy, capital punishment, tuberculosis, radium poisoning. He reads five newspapers each day and an uncounted number of magazines and books. From his library in Prudential's Newark headquarters he has given 100,000 books to the Army...
...average human being may drink from five to ten pints of tea daily without ill effect, decided Dietrich P. Fisher of Brooklyn...
Because he is "the person in our community who has rendered preeminent service to human welfare," President Conant was awarded the Ford Hall Forum gold medal at its annual banquet last evening. He was chosen because of his statement refusing the Hanfstaengl scholarship last year because of its donor's political affiliations...
...whole family, are all skilfully and sympathetically presented. The book is full of rich character-interest--in Luke the author creates a figure who is real, tangilo and pathetically endearing. More fine novels by this young Englishman may be justly expected; he has here demonstrated an inspired knowledge of human nature and a thoroughly adequate technique...