Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "If Mr. Britten's work came out scarcely in English, vocally loud from beginning to end and decorated in a manner both ugly and anachronistic, it also came through the ordeal with its music still alive and its human drama still touching...
...Sexual Behavior of the Human Male...
...also worked in its first test on human beings-ten children, one month to 2½ years old, suffering from whooping cough. All showed definite improvement in the first 48 hours. (Two of the children later died, but neither death was due either to whooping cough or to aerosporin...
...comparable experience, a comparable discipline, a comparable community of interest . . . be available to mankind at large? . . . Clearly [we may] hope that there are other areas of human experience . . . to which the qualities which distinguish scientific life may be congenial and appropriate...
...Inconstant Eye. In Britain's Nature magazine, Dr. Robert W. Lawson of the University of Sheffield considers the human blink. For the average (J-type) eye, says Dr. Lawson, blinks last about .3 seconds and come about 2.8 seconds apart...