Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increases the infant's need for vitamin E, but at the same time it decreases the natural supply of E. In addition, iron added to the prematures' diet to prevent anemia destroys vitamin E. While practically nothing is known about the workings of vitamin E in the human body, this was a lead worth following up. The Owenses arranged to get a special preparation, d-1 alpha tocopherol acetate, rich in vitamin E, to be given in a water base...
...colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...
...find ourselves pleading our cause before strangers ... It isn't human to expect that in the few brief moments that we shall be before you you can understand our problems. Collective bargaining has been . . . repealed by the President. And if this union strategy works this time, collective bargaining will never come back...
...comedy in A Sea Change comes bubbling from the familiar old wells of human vanity, but the effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic...
...pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed the rare feat, for an English novelist, of bringing American characters back alive; he has caught them in a story of human and universal comedy...