Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died in 1930, he had given the Institute some $10,000,000, more than a third of his fortune, and made it the best-equipped plant research centre...
...most important news which the studious editor of the American Journal of Roentgenology, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds of Detroit, had to impart to his readers last week was that two English x-ray experts have completed the first x-ray studies of how long the healthy human stomach requires to digest various kinds of foodstuffs...
Johns Hopkins endorsed business papers, bought overdue notes, became a banker, loaned money to the State of Maryland, the city of Baltimore, the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., became a most imperious gentleman. At one time he owned more stock in the B. & O. than any other human being. But he never traveled far from Baltimore. He walked whenever he could, never wore an overcoat, had difficulty sleeping...
Beneath Manhattan's East River, Diver John Forward was groping over the hulk of the S. S. Lexington which sank last January (TIME, Jan. 14) when a human hand languidly slapped him across the face of his helmet. It was the hand of a man whose feet had been caught under a packing case. The hand continued to slap Diver Forward until he had worked the body loose, sent it to the surface...
...with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from human seed until they can chatter and gesticulate in test-tube prisons in his Mephistophelian laboratory. Pretorius forces the Baron to collaborate on a woman-monster by having the Baron's bride (Valerie Hobson) kidnapped until he consents. There is one scene in which Pretorius and Frankenstein make a heart...