Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest show of human antics on earth takes place at Nürnberg, the grey-walled medieval city which up-to-date Nazis have made the busy world hub of antiSemitism. Annually it is swamped by some 1,500,000 Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades...
...Transvaal Museum discovered in the South African Sterkfontein caves last fall. The ape, of the family Australopithecus transvaalensis, lived in the Pleistocene days, when Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus were already beating down lesser men. Since South Africa was treeless, Australopithecus must have walked on the ground. Whether it walked human-fashion is not known, since the bones of the lower leg have not been found, but certain it is that it carried itself like an ape, because its head was hafted to its neck like that of a gorilla or chimpanzee. The horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil...
...Century, which destroyed a fourth of Europe's inhabitants, or the Great Plague of London, which killed 70,000 people in 1665. Surprised last week were the readers of Science and Science News Letter to find that seven States in the western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year, and the U. S. Public Health Service is out to top its 1937 record...
Latest and most unusual treatment for the bleeding is the application of fresh human milk to stubborn wounds. Two young Ohio physicians, Dr. Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...
...Eden, Captain Conan, Salvage, Lena), the story is told in terse, dramatic style. And, like them, Tides of Mont St.-Michel is about equally good and bad. Good are the descriptions of storms, fogs, quicksands, natural violence; bad, melodramatic are the descriptions of the storms and fogs of human relations...