Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine members, performs the function of a board of directors, since it can remove the manager after a hearing. More important for the voters is that the Councilmen are elected at large by proportional representation, which eliminates the primary and reflects, in Dean Landis's words, "as accurately as human ingenuity can devise, the complexion of your electorate...
Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
...flight Boston physicians began at once to investigate the relation of human encephalitis to equine encephalomyelitis, and last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. LeRoy Dryden Fothergill and associates* announced that, for the first time, from a case of human encephalitis, they had isolated a virus which was identical with the eastern strain of equine encephalomyelitis virus. A few days later, in Science, Pathologists Leslie Tillotson Webster and F. Howell Wright of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute confirmed the findings of the Boston physicians and described four similar cases...
...method of identifying the virus was simple: suspensions of brain tissue taken from fatal human cases were injected into the brains of young Swiss mice. Two days later the mice showed "ruffled fur, slowing of activity, alternating with convulsive twitchings," and other symptoms similar to those of equine encephalomyelitis...
...remaining of a series of lectures which Goldstein is giving on Friday afternoons in Emerson Hall on the subject "Human Nature in the Light of Psychopathology" will be concerned with the following topics...