Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baxter), jobless because he had been wrongly accused of participation in a plant bombing, is given a cruel choice. Either he must turn stoolpigeon on his fellow-workers, or the mine boss will deny Joe's wife the services of the company doctor in childbed. Joe does the human rather than the idealistic thing. His treachery is ultimately uncovered by his associates, and Joe departs from home and friends, a remorseful exile...
...judges in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and South Dakota have on their own responsibility accepted blood tests as true evidence. But New York is the first state to incorporate the new science of serology in a statute and to recognize that there are at least twelve different types of human blood and that the blood group to which an individual belongs depends exclusively upon the type of blood which flowed through the veins of his father and mother...
According to those authorities, the simplest divisions of human blood types are those discovered in 1900 by Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Landsteiner first found that, when he mixed the red cells of one person with the blood serum of another, occasionally the red cells agglutinated. Cause of the occasional clumping, he found, was an antibody in the serum which was antipathetic to an agglutinogen in the red cells. Further research disclosed two agglutinogens, A and B. A person's red cells might contain A or B, or both (AB) or neither (O). Thus, according...
Through all this it is necessary that the Business Board keeps its head. It is they who supply us with the cold hard cash which make possible spring pleasure. Freshmen tackling advertisers, in the spring, however, have a better chance to learn about the human sides of salesmanship. It is the best season of the year for cracking the hard hearts of finance. And we don't always exclude the Business Board from the pleasantries of life
...elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only 98°, they found it cooled their hands to put them under their armpits...