Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read of such terrible intolerance as in the case of the Columbians [TIME, Nov. 11]. To have race prejudice is bad enough in my opinion; but to openly "encourage our people to think in terms of race, nation, and faith," is too much for any person with moral and human decency to stand. I am appalled! Can this really be "the Land of the Free...
...Chicago School of Medicine put the sponge to the severest tests on 80 dogs. They cut the heart, liver, veins, arteries, then capped the gushing wounds with pads of dry gelatin sponge. In almost every case, bleeding stopped in a few minutes. In less drastic operations on 140 human patients, the sponge was just as effective...
From equally ever-ready Psychologist James F. Bender, the men learned how to hang on to their wives. Dr. Bender, director of the National Institute of Human Relations, recommended more thoroughgoing kissing...
Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
Cars blocking streets half a mile up Massachusetts Avenue . . . . crowds jamming every restaurant, bar, cafeteria, and drugstore around the Square . . . . flags flapping in the breeze up Mount Auburn Street, winding themselves around the flagpoles . . . . masses of human beings seething over Larz Anderson Bridge before the game--eager, hopeful, warm, and equally happy; then afterwards--just a little tighter, a little colder, most of them a little less happy . . . . all of these added up to the first really big weekend of the year...