Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...
...mummy's real name was "Sheshonk," because this name was found on the ornaments in the silver coffin. In the presence of Egypt's young King Farouk,* an archeological devotee who rushed to the spot by automobile, three canopic vases (vases with covers in the shape of human or animal heads) were opened. Each of these contained a silver box shaped like the mummy and bearing the name of Sheshonk. In one corner was a tall conical jar sealed with mud. This, not opened at latest reports, was expected to contain papyri or weapons...
There are types of scholarship which suffer no harm from being confined in an very tower which is furnished only with books or laboratory apparatus; there are others which are enriched by broad human sympathies and experience. Although a university lives within walls as a world apart, there must be perpetual commerce with the world outside in order that the university may both enlighten and be nourished by the civilization of its time and place...
Among the scientists with whom Wald was associated during his training abroad, were Professors Otto Warburg, of Berlin-Dahlem, Otto Meyerhoff, of Heidelberg, and Paul Karrer, of Zurich. Wald's results are the fruits of many months of painstaking experiments with human, animal, and fish eyes...
...Motion pictures are the greatest art form man has created. ... In Wagner's Walkure there are strange creatures-part human, part horse. The stage could never produce them, but the movies can do it without the least trouble...