Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicaragua? ". . . We can make no advance . . . until human affairs are brought within the orderly rule of law. The surest refuge of the weak and the oppressed is in the law. It is pre-eminently the shield of small nations...
...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
Round was the tribute, and warranted. John Jacob Abel, 70, has added many a stone to the house of human knowledge. His special field has been pharmacology, a branch that he has taught at Johns Hopkins since 1893. His researches led to the discovery and synthetic production of Adrenalin, drug that has a startling therapeutic action on the heart muscles.* It can often cause stopped hearts to beat. Only last year he succeeded in preparing insulin in crystalline form. His crystals seem to be the hormone necessary to maintain normal sugar balance in the body and to prevent diabetes...
Gustave Charpentier's "Louise", which is to be performed by the Chicago Civic Opera Company on "Harvard Night", has maintained its place in operatic repertories for over a quarter of a century because it combines human interest with musical vitality. It also attracts the student of opera for two reasons. First, it is the outcome of sincere experiment in substituting a story of "real life" among the working classes for the romantic or history subjects previously in vogue. Furthermore its text, following the example of Bruneau, a great admirer of Zola and the literary cult of "realism" is written...
With our hearts full of gratitude for this modern civilization of ours, we sometimes look back and shudder at the cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...