Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also cleared up a minor mystery-why had she written a letter to Consul General Lomakin after her first escape to Countess Alexandra Tolstoy's farm? "I wanted to speak to them as human beings in order to see that proper arrangements [for staying in the U.S.] could be made. When they came, they were not human beings at all, but arrested...
Last week, at the Vancouver convention of the Canadian Federation of Convent Alumnae, strait-laced Archbishop Duke spoke his mind on still another human frailty: bathing beauty contests. Said he: "They are unbecoming and could be the occasions of sin ... They are barred to Catholic women who realize in conscience this great danger ... It lowers the dignity and esteem due to women to parade them and measure them . . . like cattle...
...schoolteachers: "If a teacher is to arouse enthusiasm for the good life . . . he or she should be able to follow the normal process of having dates, getting married, and leading a normal life without undue snooping, sniping, and interference from public busybodies ... Teachers must have the right to be human...
Will phenosulfazole work on human patients? Clinical trials have been made at Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons, Manhattan's Knickerbocker Hospital, the medical branch of the University of Texas, Jefferson Davis Hospital at Houston, and the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest College. Said Columbia's Bacteriologist Murray Sanders: "Up to the present writing we do not know what effect Darvisul has on human poliomyelitis . . . One thing is clear. The real job lies ahead of us and no one can foresee the answer." In short, phenosulfazole is still an experiment...
...wrote in a mode of grotesque comedy rarely found in recent American fiction. With the irresponsible zest of a primitive jokester, he reveled in the high jinks of such moronic subhumans as Jeeter Lester and Darling Jill, whom he twisted into creatures of ribald fantasy far removed from everyday human character...