Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme is "Protect sweet little mountain lions" and "Only man is vile." Children and dumb adults are supposed to rejoice when the lion mutilates a human and causes his death...
...wisely says; "the cultivation of sensibility has become a blind alley." He recognizes that present interest in the Mexicans and mural painting generally has a psychological or sociological cause: "The one clear note in contemporary American painting is a new emphasis upon social and collective expression. Subject and 'human interest' have definitely been reinstated in art." His recognition of that fact leads him to give the satirists like O. Soglow and Hugo Gellert their due as interpreters of the American scene...
Members of the Corporation are still purring over the rare specimen, known as Conant, that they bagged two years ago. While his habitat turned out to be the Converse Laboratory, he is quite human and promises to make as good a President as Harvard has ever had. Evidently, this in the last expedition which has been planned for the next decade or so; if one excepts an occasional safari to keep in trim, such as an honorary degree to another Al Smith...
Just 50 years ago this coming July Pasteur first used a vaccine on a human being. It was rabies vaccine, which Pasteur administered to Joseph Meister an Alsatian child chewed by a mad dog. The boy recovered, and bacteriologists began to invent vaccines, the moment they dicovered the cause and method of transmission of a disease...
Pasteur thus by accident discovered the principle of preventive innovation against infectious disease. For the firs time someone could explain why pus from a calf's poxy sores prevented smallpox in human beings...