Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worrying about the problems of a new house, payments on a car and if he can afford a new washing machine, the average Hungarian has been doing things that are beyond my imagination. The comparison haunts me I can't help feeling that we've let the human race down a little, and yet, what could we have done? The tragedy and anguish of th Hungarian voices on the radio was unforgettable; t he text should be hung on ever American mirror, so we could read...
...Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, treated as "a detective story"; and The Unchained Goddess, on weather and meteorology. Like Sun, each will bear the endorsement of the nation's most eminent scientists, be released at three-month intervals. The human spirit, Capra explains, has three main outlets: the artistic, religious and scientific. "They are all after the same truth. The artistic tries to find it in laws of harmony, the religious in moral laws, the scientific in physical laws. But science has never been given the right shake...
...most neglected muscles in the human body may also be one of the most important. It is, says the University of Southern California's Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, the pubococcygeus, which lies near the base of the pelvis, just above the perineum* It has the task of holding up the organs in the lower pelvis. But, Kegel believes, in many cases-particularly among women-it may not be highly enough developed by nature to do its job efficiently...
...adapt himself to his circumstances, including both outward events and internal emotions. As a technical framework for the disorders resulting from excess stress (or from faulty adaptation to normal stress), he has constructed the general adaptation syndrome, or G.A.S. Under this theory, the immediate response of the human or any other animal to a challenging stimulus is the alarm reaction-the mobilization for fight or flight marked by drops in body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar. This first or shock phase may last from a few minutes to 24 hours; before it is over, the body mobilizes for counter...
...Persian messengers travel with a velocity which nothing human can equal. . . . Neither snow, nor rain, nor heart, nor darkness are permitted to obstruct their speed."--Herodotus, Book Seven...