Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Have lived here some time and notice that screwiness is even more of a tourist attraction than scenery or climate. Visitors from the East don't show much interest in Yosemite, the Redwoods or the orange groves, but they fall all over themselves to see evidences of our human phenomena-such as the folks at Aimee's Angelus Temple and on Hollywood Boulevard, the Iowans at Elysian Park, and supporters of the "$30-every-Thursday." In short, the pinheads have at last eclipsed the halfdomes on the California scene...
Their importance to science is that they have a unique hereditary defect of the sort which crops out occasionally in nature but which human investigators cannot produce at will. Some disturbance in the rat chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ plasm) prevents their soft, prenatal cartilage from developing into a normal skeleton. The young appear normal for two weeks, then become bandy-legged as if suffering from rickets. Usually they die at the age of four to five weeks, with soft, collapsed ribs and emphysema of the lungs (air leakage into the spaces of the connective tissue...
...Thin persons may relieve constipation by eating more cream (three to four oz.) and butter (at least one-eighth of a pound). Bran is "a material unsuited for human consumption and should be relegated to the barn. . . ." Often it proves harmful, sometimes obstructs the large and small intestines. A couple of cups of coffee a day are helpful, for coffee contains a drug, caffeol, which has laxative properties. Some persons react to a few glasses of water in the morning when their bowels are on "trigger edge...
Belisle concludes that the problem is one of "interpenetration of seeming social opposites," of "practical social engineering in community and public relations," and of "organization of complex human resources into relatively simple individual action...
Dean Matthews will deliver the fourth in his series of lectures tonight on the subject. "The Christian Plan For Human Living...