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Word: human (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editorial comment on Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" has proved too strong a potion for Quaker tastes. As a result the 68-year-old Phoenix, Swarthmore College newspaper, has been forced to suspend publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swarthmore Press Silenced For View on Kinsey Report | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...fever victims, and blocks their action. Then he developed a way of using procaine (local anesthetic common in dentistry) to control the violent, often fatal spasms that usually plague surgeons who have the courage to operate on the heart. Dr. Smithy was ready for his first operation on a human being when Betty Lee reached Charleston's Roper Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing links that will spread dangerous atomic bomb atoms to human beings was reported today at the University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Say It Simply | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...problems are varied and vexing. There is the human element: the smiling lady, who, for some mysterious, feminine reason, kept plugging Lipton's Tea as she brewed a pot of her sponsor's Tender Leaf. There are mechanical embarrassments, too: the Gillette razor that got stuck in the middle of a display of its , simple operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Message from the Sponsor | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...those years to raise $5,000 which she hopes might persuade someone into giving new information about the old, dead case. When the reporter (James Stewart) first looks her up, he has no doubts of her son's (Richard Conte) guilt; he merely plays her story for its human interest. It is good "circulation copy" and he follows it up industriously. But soon he begins to smell something fishy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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