Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Something white wobbling at the bottom of Brentford Canal attracted three small boys last month. Soon they fished out a slimy human torso. In England the next thing to do in all such cases is to send for Sir Bernard Spilsbury...
Government politicians did not want to sacrifice Dr. Minobe, who had only said what they all privately believed, but they did not dare officially deny the official legend that the Emperor is "a super-individual divine human being." Though they declined to charge Dr. Minobe with lese-majeste, the Cabinet did order the Home Minister to suppress Dr. Minobe's two textbooks, Essentials of Constitutional Law and A Course in Constitutional...
...directors and shareholders know to their cost the sorrow and suffering war entails, the waste of human life and material, the financial loss posterity must bear and the damage done to the economic structure of the world. . . . The maintenance of peace is in the best interests of both your company and the community generally...
...cornea, or transparent front coating of the eyeball, occasionally becomes clouded, so that light cannot get through to the retina. Result: blindness. Eye surgeons recently perfected the operation of replacing such a clouded cornea with a corneal graft from the useless eye of an-other human being (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Dr. Ramon Castroviejo of Manhattan performed that operation on the left eye of Fremont Clark of Wadena, Iowa with this new twist: Instead of waiting for another patient to give up his cornea, Dr. Castroviejo gave Mr. Clark the cornea of a still-born baby...
...noon, in a room heavy with perspiration and heat and flowers and human emotion, they and the visitors from Lincoln wedged themselves to hear the list of those who had received degrees. Among those honored was a frail young girl from Virginia. "Willa Sibert Cather," called the voice from the platform...