Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual, his dignity and worth. They support both democracy and constitutionism. They entertain a continuing bias in favor of existing institutions, but they are prepared to keep open minds with regard to changes in institutions and government. Most important, they have learned that if the conservative values of human dignity, constitutionalism and private property are to be preserved then government, the Twentieth Century Leviathan, must be used as a positive instrument, not only in general but also in particular. Further, instead of trying to preserve an eighteenth century division of functions between the national and local governments they are prepared...
Whilst appreciating your very human account of the splendid service the U.S. Air Force is giving Berliners through the air lift [TIME, Oct. 18] . . . I was disappointed at your failure to make any comment upon the equally determined efforts of the Royal Air Force...
...buzzard, coasting high in the air over Central America last week, would have seen nothing unusual. The mountainous, forest-matted isthmus lay quietly in the greasy November sun. Among the many human realities invisible to the buzzard were the boundary lines-the imaginary but very actual barriers that said: "This is Costa Rica; this is Guatemala; this is Nicaragua...
...Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...