Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the change from "chiropodist" to "podiatrist" is today's scope of practice of America's foot specialists. Corns, calluses and ingrown nails are common foot conditions, but the podiatrist diagnoses and treats diseases, injuries and deformities of the human foot by chemical, physical and mechanical means...
Says Germany's veteran Rocketeer Rolf Engel, who has known Von Braun since 1928: "He is a human leader whose eyes and thoughts have always been turned toward the stars. It would be foolish to assign rocketry success to one person totally. Components must necessarily be the work of many minds; so must successive stages of development. But because Wernher von Braun joins technical ability, passionate optimism, immense experience and uncanny organizing ability in the elusive power to create a team, he is the greatest human element behind today's rocketry success...
...human upheavals vast enough to change the physical look of a large part of the earth's surface was the collectivizing of Soviet agriculture. One hundred and eight million Russian peasants were forcibly torn from the traditional checkerboard of their individual farms and resettled in a new pattern of huddled hamlets dotting the forest-wall-to-forest-wall carpeting of huge collectively tilled fields. This battle for collectivization, Stalin told Churchill, was harder to win than the war against Hitler, and he killed or starved to death an estimated 6,000,000 Russians in winning it. In that battle...
...overriding merit of this book is a reminder to the reader-a reminder that capitalism is a revolutionary force in human affairs offering still unplumbed promise for the future...
...truth; somehow it has not the weight of the play behind it. Too many earlier scenes were flattish, too much writing was prosy; nowhere did 17 years leap out in a sudden glance, or a lifetime emerge in a comment. The play makes soberly clear the sad human arithmetic that twice two is four, and that mankind would make it five. What is beyond it is the magical creative arithmetic that can raise things to a higher power...