Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Charles Francis Brush, Cleveland inventor of arc lights and storage batteries, died in 1929, he gave $500,000 for a Brush Foundation to improve the human race and regulate its population. Dr. Todd, a tall, angular Yorkshireman whose fondest possession is an original photograph of Charles Darwin, took charge of the Brush Foundation. His first goal, and the purpose of his meticulous measurements of Cleveland children, is to find exactly how a human being grows from childhood to adulthood. When he learns what happens to the body (including brain), he expects to find out precisely how the mind...
...painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare him, at great length, to Rubens, Titian, and the 16th Century Venetians. Such a book would have appalled Painter Renoir. He was vitally interested in light, color and human bodies but hated philosophical arguments...
...found about a dozen such families, some afflicted with venereal disease. Father Caldwell said there might be 35 such families in Jefferson County- about 1% of the population. Said the Chronicle: "We have been told, and we believe, that investigation in any area would produce a similar proportion of human derelicts-dregs of civilization...
William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
...long has the University dodged this problem of Freshman eating. It is high time Freshman be considered as adult human beings, and their requests given the attention they deserve. At least a share of alleged profits made in the past by the Dining Halls would he well spent giving Freshman with ten o'clocks an opportunity to enjoy the sleep of the studious...