Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize I am sure that throughout the world hundreds of millions of human beings are living today in constant fear of a new war or even a series of wars...
...Karl Landsteiner, 70. Nervous, Austrian-born Dr. Landsteiner won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine, for discovering that there are four main types of human blood with at least 30 subtypes. As a result of his discovery, blood transfusion ha become a safe operation. His blood tests showed that anthropoid apes and human beings are more closely related than anthropoid apes and monkeys, or monkeys and men. More recently he has been working on the chemistry of body immunity. He has thrown light on the relationship of toxins and similar substances to the antibodies they provoke...
...visitors to the New York World's Fair. X-rays will penetrate the wrappings and dried flesh, pass on to create an image on a fluorescent screen, revealing to visitors the mummy's skeletal arrangement. General Electric X-Ray Corp. believes Harwa to be the first adult human body ever fluoroscoped in toto...
...stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...
...Washington, D. C. the U. S. Treasury Department's Procurement Division sought "one male human skeleton, with bones of a single individual." Specifications: removable arms, legs, feet, skull, one removable hand, one horizontal skull cut. Purpose: exhibition at the Marine Hospital, St. Louis...