Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours without a break, and much of the time without lights, the Consort's surgeon tended the wounded in a wardroom littered with bits of human tissue and bloodstained clothing. The wounded were lined up on deck waiting to receive treatment; Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...
...belongs to the steroid group of body chemicals. So do the sex hormones (a link with relief during pregnancy) and some bile products of the liver (a link with jaundice). Compound E was obtained later from an element of bile. Seven months ago Mayo's began treating human patients...
...times as strong as some drugs now used to combat histamine (the substance thought to be released in the body as part of allergic reactions). But its strength did not cause a corresponding increase in unpleasant effects, and it lasted much longer. Chlor-Trimeton is now being tried on human patients, may soon be available on doctors' prescriptions...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
What can save a civilization from perishing? Does the Christian Gospel of Redemption apply to nations as well as individuals? Here Niebuhr wades into a cut & thrust theological controversy, armed with a two-edged blade of paradox. Human society, he concedes, is maintained by push-and-shove competition and balance of power; the very instruments of social justice tend automatically to become unjust. But, he says, such teachers as Martin Luther are in error, when they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures...