Word: humanics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They must have both been freshmen, probably on a first date. The girl sounded Midwestern. She tried again. "But they're all human beings like...
...soon as the balloon took off, it was out of human hands. When it reached 80,000 ft., automatic controls would ready the telescope and point it at the sun. They would take about 8,000 pictures (f/200, 1/1000 sec. exposure). Then, their duty done, they would separate the observatory from the balloon and drop it to earth on a giant parachute...
...Investigators McCarthy, Velde and Jenner were glorified, he blasted them as "men of tyranny." Two days before his death, Davies appeared on WABD's Nightbeat, was asked by Newsgriller John Wingate what would be the theme of his last sermon. Said Davies: "The true meaning of love in human life...
John Aubrey, 17th century English gentleman of leisure, had a painter's eye for human traits and a gossip columnist's passion for scandal. Both talents he diligently brought to his famous prose portraits, one of which was 23,000 words long, while another never got beyond one line, i.e., "Dr. Pell is positive that his name was Holybushe." Aubrey's Lives have been the historian's bounty and bane: his research was fascinating, but often based on mere hearsay. Whatever his shortcomings, no other biographer has ever written more vivid, true-to-life descriptions...
...those who are more interested in developing their own techniques either in political or college editorials, drama, art, or literary criticism, humor or human interest, the editorial board presents an open field...