Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Human Substance." Near an old factory in Crawley, detectives soon found some interesting evidence: a piece of red plastic like that on a handbag which the missing widow carried, a ten-gallon carboy, one of several used to store sulphuric acid, and ashlike specimens of what a Home Office pathologist called "the residue of some human substance." Haigh was promptly taken into custody...
...poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...
...believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . that all the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body...
...Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's division of grasshopper control, this is the worst grasshopper season since 1940. But the hoppers are having a tough time; they are being mowed down in their youth by new poisons, new spreading devices and far better organization among their human enemies...
...summer of 1947 and pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...