Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial circumstances," says a neat card prepared by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and handed out last week by doctors to patients or their kin. And with good reason: Cutter was talking about bills for one of the highest-priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient: $50 to $55 a gram (1/30 oz.). Average amount used in a single course of treatment...
...vigorous progeny. His free form can today be found in Palm Springs swimming pools, advertising layouts, book design. His use of chance effects and nonrational promptings paved the way for abstract artists' use of below-the-threshold impulses. But of one thing he is certain: "If the human being loses contact with nature, if there are no longer any trees, it is the end of the world. Machines, Sputniks, I find them horrible, ridiculous. The human being has become presumptuous...
Deeming himself "an optimist, a realist, and in a sense a moralist," Pauling said, "We must not think war is going to take place. World leaders know it's impossible. It is ... incompatible with everything that is human." He continued, "I am happy that the world is forced to become a world of law and order rather than anarchy, a world of morality rather than national immorality...For the first time in history it is possible for national diplomats to be moral men, because self-interest and morality now coincide...
Pauling, who also spoke at the Medical School, is an international authority on the effects of radiation on the human body...
...years) sold more than 11 million copies; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Growing up in Allegheny, Pa., Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named "Tish," still...