Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, I am to be, if we both can stand the strain necessary to adjustment, the "alter ego" of a human dynamo...
...Inaugurating the 1938 Mobilization for Human Needs (national community chest drives), Franklin Roosevelt said: "You may well ask if the need for community action is as great as before, now that your Government has provided a national program of social security. I would answer that the need is just as great as before...
...figure. It was not the Ghost. It was a young male embodiment in long knitted underwear. The audience guffawed. Old Bob did not see the apparition and the audience recognized it only as some University of Michigan fraternity neophyte. This year that ghost is the prime champion of human derelicts in U.S. politics, and he is recognized as Sheridan Downey, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in the great and screwy State of California...
Franklin Roosevelt refers to the leaders of such movements as the "lunatic fringe." Their lunacy, if such it is, is ever among human beings, the urge of Something for Nothing. The moon which causes that lunacy may be the earth's satellite or human evolution, but the moon is powerful. It has created a tide in the affairs of men which this year crested in California under the name of "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday," alias "Ham & Eggs." Under this scheme the State would give everyone aged 50 or more $30 of State scrip every Thursday and retire the scrip...
...accommodation. Chief objection to homatropine is that its effects sometimes last as long as 36 hours. Dr. Lyle Stephenson Powell of Lawrence, Kans. followed homatropine with small quantities of Benzedrine sulfate or with eserine (a drug derived from the African Calabar bean) in an alkaline solution similar to human tears. Result: quick-acting drops. Within four hours some patients were able to read newspapers again...