Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declare that the church is not there? . . . We know full well that Scripture needs a qualified interpreter, but we cannot agree with our Catholic neighbors on who this interpreter shall be . . ." The Protestant version: "This infallible interpreter is none else than the Holy Spirit." But Roman Catholics "want human guides and little candles to light the way ahead, as if Christians were not able to listen to God without a translator, or to execute His orders without a foreman to supervise...
Ordained to Praise. The woodcuts, mostly book illustrations and chapter headings, betrayed Gill's lack of academic training: the drawing, especially of human figures, was awkward, stiff and anatomically inept. But the prints also showed the order and clarity of Gill's mind and the precision of his craft; they had the decisive simplicity that characterized all his work. Beyond that, even his woodcuts of devils seemed to attest Gill's joy in life -and therefore to praise God. "Man," Gill wrote, "is that part of creation which can praise his creator. Because...
...President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College at Bronxville, N.Y., the tension was becoming unbearable. Said he, "Symptoms of extreme anxiety have broken out ... Everyone seems jumpy, nervous, suspicious and distrustful of the human intellect . . ." President Taylor was plainly jumpy himself. He was not alone last week...
Another method is tissue culture. Bits of cancer tissue are stuck to the side of a test tube. A nutrient solution (made of such unlikely ingredients as extract of human placentas) is added. The tube is sealed and put on a vertical merry-go-round in an incubator. As the merry-go-round revolves slowly, the solution washes over the cancer tissue, which grows vigorously just as if it were in a living body. Drugs can be tested against it simply by adding them to the solution...
Sure enough, "2,6" prolonged the life of leukemic mice by 60%. It destroyed or controlled rat tumors. It killed other tumors in test-tube cultures. On human patients, it acted as a palliative, but not a cure. It has secured "remissions," for instance, for a few leukemic children...