Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeblemindedness, malformations of the human body, tuberculosis and other diseases are a test of man's ingenuity. Many of the so-called incurables of the past are today among our outstanding citizens and humanitarians. To conquer the so-called unconquerable is man's highest...
Reporting their findings last week in a book published in Britain (Studies of the Renal Circulation; Blackwell Scientific Publications),* Trueta's group hopefully declared: "We believe that [the primary factors causing high blood pressure] will eventually be found in the central nervous system, even in the human mind itself, and that with their discovery will come a complete understanding of the condition known as 'essential hypertension,' affording a new hope for the victims of this disease of civilized...
...Dyer of the U.S. Public Health Service tags penicillin molecules with radioactive sulphur, then traces the drug through the human body to find out just where it goes and what eventually happens...
...athlete of reality would know, according to Edmond Taylor, that journalists, political scientists and diplomats have built up a mythical picture of the political world: 1) by talking about issues instead of human beings, 2) by looking at the world from the distorting point of view of U.S. interests, 3) by creating a belief in "the certitude of certainty...
...could wish; Cornel Wilde is a fine young man, ambitious, though a little wild; while the minor characters could be transferred to another such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair, and hope that this one will...