Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 100,000 homes in Chicago, said the U.S.P.H.S., are unfit for human habitation. What's more startling, there are more than 4,000 privies inside the city limits...
...services. At Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral there were 10,000, in Washington's outdoor Sylvan Theater, 25,000. Gravely they offered a prayer for the "enslaved" Russian people and "those misguided souls," the Communists of all nations. Said Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen: "Communists are human beings...
...failure was epitomized in the picture of the week-a gift from grim Foreign Minister Molotov to dogged Secretary of State Marshall. The painting, by Russian Landscape Painter V. N. Baksheev, 85, titled Toward Evening, showed a peaceful wooded scene whose tranquility was untroubled by a single human figure...
...infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...
Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...