Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using guines pigs, for example, Professor Frederick L. Hisaw has discovered relaxin, a chemical now known to exist in the human body. His search started several years ago when scientists discovered, much to their chagrin, that pocket gophers were physically incapable of having children. The female pelvis was much too small...
...advertising cancellations) if he did not "lay off"; his telephone rang with anonymous threats. Advertisers organized a boycott of the Sentinel; 100 subscriptions were canceled. Only then did the Sentinel take a firm stand in the strike. Wrote angry Editor Crowder: "The City Council is bucking the line of human progress at the expense of all the people . . ." To offset the canceled subscriptions, 300 C.I.O. and A.F.L. union members marched in a body to the Sentinel office and signed...
...tried to tell a convincing story. With her, any old melodrama (even including secret drawers, lost wills, fantastic skeletons in impeccable family closets) passes for plot; all Novelist Compton-Burnett needs is the chance to reveal what she is really interested in revealing-the vices, virtues and idiosyncrasies of human behavior. To this end, too, the people in her novels talk all the time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when they fail to do so, there is always someone close at hand...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...liked the idea. Before his death in 1924, he had sired the twelve redheaded youngsters that he'd bargained for. And he had taken a keen interest in their upbringing. For one thing, they formed a convenient laboratory for his own professional work in motion-study and human relations...