Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taut European situation, this March of Time edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...pain of angina pectoris is the most agonizing that a human being ever feels. It usually begins at the upper part of the breastbone, shoots to the left shoulder, and down the left arm. The victim has a terrifying sense of being about to drop dead. And he looks very much as he feels. Many victims do die during their first attack of angina pectoris. But for most victims the first attack is the heart's warning that it will cease working if its brain, soul and body do not instantly change to a calmer way of life...
...butte ten miles from Carnac, found an unknown group of monuments including an elliptical cromlech and five dolmens, three of them almost perfectly preserved. One immense dolmen consisted of 19 pillars covered by five table stones. Professor Guenin found traces of a campsite, started digging for human remains...
...seriously the Monroe Doctrine. Under that theory we assumed the burden of protecting European capital and citizens in this hemisphere. If the government feels that Pan American relations require a hands off policy what will be the attitude of the British, Spanish, and other governments that have material and human interests at stake...
...anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian and romancer of the sea but as a student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths and he was able to obtain vital statistics concerning newcomers who joined the colony late in its history. There is a preponderance of European inheritance over the Tahitian and more occidental features...