Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realized that he himself had changed, in dress and outlook, out of recognition, but by his look Sturdy might have stopped out of 1940. "Look guy," Sturdy beamed, "It's good to find a human in town. Let's get a drink and talk. I know a couple of girls." Vag smiled privately. He bet Sturday knew a couple of girls. Rumors of his high-flying amours had in their freshman year kept three baby deans permanently poised to pounce...
...color-loving, fun-seeking Sudanese there were color and fun aplenty. It was Leilat el Isra, anniversary of Mohamed's visit to the seven heavens on his human-faced steed el Buraq. It was also the birthday anniversary of Mohamed Ahmed el Mahdi, whose fanatic desert dervishes destroyed "Chinese" Gordon's British army in the Sudan...
...which is currently popular among ulcer specialists. But even that new hope was dampened by Dr. Russell S. Boles of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Said he: "While it is too soon to form conclusions about this operation, it is not too soon to . . . protest against . . . a mass experiment on human beings that is fraught with potentially serious and permanent disabilities." Dr. Boles's warning: the vagus operation, which partially paralyzes the stomach, may produce diarrhea and vomiting, make it hard to get rid of food in the stomach...
...Music, drama and the other arts . . . have been invaded by sensationalism. Human friendship and love between men & women have been perverted . . . into mere physical excitement. Are we . . . headed for a debauch of excitement which will result in the sickness of disillusionment and the headache of regret...
Andean Man, a stocky individual with a broad chest and purplish-ruddy complexion, is the special interest of Dr. Carlos Monge, founder of Peru's National Institute of Andean Biology. Dr. Monge regards him as a distinct climatological variety of the human race. The institute was founded (in 1930) to study the Andean Indian and thus to find ways of making the mountains livable for newcomers, both human and animal. At first, Dr. Monge had almost no money or trained help and made little progress. (Once, when he sent rabbits to Huancayo for observation, the observer ate them...