Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard were playing the University of Geneva in quoits, the Crimson Key would have a man on the docks to meet the visiting team. The College's human welcome mat does everything from providing a uniformed detail to guard the Band's bass drum during football games to helping Freshmen choose their courses...
Nash is a chemical analyst, but the things he analyzes are too small to be seen by human eyes. He is learning how to dissect chemicals in batches so small that 1000-power microscopes are needed to make them...
These compounds contain mustard gas, deadly to all human cells. Normal cells have an enzyme that chops off the mustard gas and takes away its sting. Cancerous cells don't have the enzyme, and the gas hits them with full force...
...novel is in the form of a diary kept by a solitary scholar in 1932 in a French provincial town. Starting with mild expressions of disgust at existence, the entries run a truly resourceful gamut of the grotesque, the dispiriting, and the desperate. There is not a human being in the book who is not in some way loathsome, and the hyperconsciousness of the diarist soon gets to the point of seeing everything in a light both ghastly and obscene. One of Novelist Sartre's revelations...
...Herald said that Cohn is "opening up secrets locked in human blood since the beginnings of time--and the possibilities in terms of curing human ills are incalculable. . . For the first time, living white blood calls can now be isolated for study and treatment...