Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee room of the munitions investigation, love of peace is kept at white heat, but when Mr. Baruch made this declaration, the noble emotion of Senators, witnesses and onlookers alike was momentarily superseded by normal human curiosity. Mr. Baruch promptly proceeded to satisfy that curiosity. The great South Carolina-born speculator whom President Wilson made head of the War Industries Board had prepared a letter setting forth his security holdings and profits during the period...
...open artery. Dr. Clement Harrisse Arnold, 49, of San Francisco, whose hobby is murder evidence, marched into court. Dr. Arnold had a thick gauze pad fixed with adhesive tape to the back of his neck. Said he: "So far as I know, no one has ever experimented with a human being to find out how far his blood will shoot. So I undertook an actual experiment...
...When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white men at all, as they are afraid of a new diet. Cannibals usually are weaklings. There will be no cannibalism among the Solomon Islands in ten years, when civilization contacts the back country...
...were spent in the nightmare atmosphere of defeat, starvation, revolution. Not because she thinks her personal War history extraordinary but because millions of her generation went through the same painful process, she has written this straightforward report on her dark lexicon of youth. Even Teutophobes will find her account human and moving...
...erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried her to the U. S. she was given an Eskimo name, Inunguak ("real human being...