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Word: humanizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sulfanilamide, the "wonder drug," introduced into the U. S. in 1936, is credited with remarkable cures in cases of gonorrhea, childbed fever, other streptococcal infections. Last week it advanced on a new field of human suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Again, Sulfanilamide | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Baptist groups which do not believe in foreign missions and "human institutions" such as Sunday school do not belong to the Alliance. Stay-at-homes-unless they wished to pay 25? to sit in the audience at night meetings of the congress-were Foot-Washing, Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit, Hard Shell Primitive, Six-Principle, Seventh Day, Free Will, Streaked Head Baptists. All these sects are small, quirky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Nonsense | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Clews's Jekyll-&-Hyde sculpture falls into two utterly unrelated groups: 1) Rodinesque portrait busts and vitriolic caricatures (of the human race in general or friends in particular), generally in bronze; 2) grotesques-like Jan, King of the Jins of La Napoule-usually in polished red and green porphyry. Always a competent sculptor, he showed to best advantage when he chiseled the monsters of his own imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Never-Never Land | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Palisades Amusement Park (Fort Lee, N. J.) police raided "The Human Slave Market," where men & women had been offering themselves in matrimony to the highest bidder. Each "slave" carried a placard (example: "Today's special-a law graduate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Journey's End, St. Helena) gives an insect's-eye view of what happened when the moon got out of whack in 1945, plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, all but wiped out Europe by tornado, earthquake and flood. The moon's havoc was less than the human havoc which followed. England, now changed from an island to a landlocked meadow on the fringe of Europe, demanded a "British Corridor" to the sea at Gibraltar, but the Corridor blocked Europe's nations from the oil and metals discovered on the fallen moon. In the wars that resulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moonstruck | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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