Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would disrupt "human relations." "It would encourage distrust, suspicion, and arbitrary attitudes . . . remove the settlement of differences from the bargaining table to courts of law . . . inevitably embittering both parties...
Actually, the food shipments seemed to spring from more human, less political, motives. One, undoubtedly, was a little international racket which encouraged individual Greeks to send the parcels as gestures of gratitude for U.S. aid, thus avoiding Greek Government restrictions on food exports. The other source was. plain Greeks who (like plain people all over Europe) had always sent the old special delicacies to their emigrant families in the new world. For everyone knew that though America was great and incredibly well fed, it just couldn't produce the kind of salami that brought tears to your eyes...
...names for sun and moon. Scientists can scoff, but he believes-and several thousand sportsmen who follow his tables will swear-that at certain times of day all nature seems to wake up. Fish bite, ducks and pheasants abound, field dogs are alert and easy to train, and even human beings suddenly feel good for no apparent reason. The solunar tables chart the times of day when everything starts to hum. Says Knight: "We don't know what causes that activity, but it applies to all life." The sun and the moon seem to have something to do with...
Inspired in part by Haldane's dive, the British Navy launched a full-dress study of oxygen poisoning, now reported in the British Medical Journal. Oxygen is essential to life, but it appears that the human body can stand just so much of it (not so much as biologists once supposed). The British Navy concludes that breathing pure oxygen under more than two atmospheres of pressure (or an oxygen dive of more than 25 feet under sea water) is dangerous...
...resisted the same dose for nearly 2½ hours another day. For some unknown reason, people are more vulnerable to oxygen poisoning under water than under the same pressure in a pressure chamber. And at a pressure of one atmosphere or less (as in high-altitude flight), human beings apparently can breathe pure oxygen indefinitely without harm...