Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the oval study on the second floor of the White House trooped the Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest...
...Burckhardt," it described an interview at Doom during "that tense last week of September." Author "Burckhardt" pictured the once All-Highest pacing up and down and throwing off such amazing indiscretions as: "There's a man alone, without family, without children, without God. Why should he be human? . . . He has got rid of, or even killed . . . Papen, Schleicher, Neurath-and even Blomberg. He has nothing left but a bunch of shirted gangsters...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Short described the historic deflation which followed, the case of a human being who parted with 60% of her body and lived to tell the tale. During the first month she lost twelve pounds, in 20 months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
Before his trip to Alaska he had observed that many rats fed on coarsely-ground raw rice and corn developed tooth decay; but over 200 rats which had been fed soft, cooked cereals had perfect teeth. He set out to find foods in the human dietary which would correspond to the coarse corn and rice...
Both as a means of preserving a poet's own version of his works, and as a way of studying the human voice, Professor Packard's experiment has met with nationwide approval...