Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after all, Frank Merriwell and not Superman. He gets hungry. 'Boys,' he proclaimed after a pleasant chat, 'I must...
Chiropractors (not to be confused with osteopaths, who often have medical degrees and base their treatments on correcting faulty body structure) still work on Founder Palmer's theory that most human ills derive from "subluxations" (dislocations) of the spinal column. Their treatment: "adjustment" (manipulation) of the spine, offered as a cure-all for a wide range of ailments, from scarlet fever to stomach ulcers...
...human being can live-after a fashion -minus his stomach, his pancreas and half his liver. How much can he lose and still survive? A noted cancer surgeon last week offered some startling new data on that old question...
...effect. For the relations of civilizations could not be investigated without introducing a new space-time factor into the study of history. Where, before, there had been nations, dramatizing their buzzing brevity upon the linear scale of history, there were, from Toynbee's vantage point, vertical progressions of human effort. Where there had been a plane, there was now chasmic depth, the all but unimaginable tract of time...
...shattered the frozen patterns of historical determinism and materialism by again asserting God as an active force in history. His assertion, implicit throughout the 3,488 pages of A Study of History, implied another: the goal of history, however dimly sensed in human terms, is the Kingdom of God. That aspiration redeems history from being a futile tragedy of blood...