Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heinous of which would call for the death penalty. Approaching the same hope from a different angle, the Church of England bishops, with only one exception, voted in favor of abolition, even though the Archbishop of Canterbury had said: "The death penalty is a witness to the sacredness of human life and social order...
...Mencken's sour description of the sort of youth who generally gets stagestruck. "Is he," Mencken asked, "the alert, ingenious, ambitious young fellow? Is he ... the diligent reader, the hard student, the eager inquirer? No. He is, in the overwhelming main, the neighborhood fop and beau, the human clotheshorse, the nimble squire of dames. He seeks in the world, not a chance to test his mettle by hard and useful work, but an easy chance to shine...
...Affirmative. To Graham's defense this week comes Dean Elmer George Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary. Billy Graham, he writes, "does break through into human personality and seems to give thousands of Protestants a dynamic gospel which highly intellectualized and organized Christianity fails to give...
This week Warner-Chilcott announced that all that painstaking effort has produced a new medicine to forestall premature birth. The firm released to medical centers and drug wholesalers a hormone derivative called Releasin, which has the properties of relaxin. In a human, the drug does not work as drastically as in gophers, but it has the effect of "softening" tissues in the birth canal. It does not simply make delivery easier-though it does that too. Its chief virtue is to halt premature labor so that a fetus can be carried to term, or nearly...
...long a human being can survive without water varies so much with conditions that doctors recognize no records. In Death Valley, with a hot, drying wind and no shade, survival might well be less than 48- hours. Jean Margetts' case, record or no, was a striking example of the human organism's innate will to live...