Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets hungry enough, strange things begin to happen to his manners, his emotions and even his mind. During the war, 36 conscientious objectors volunteered as guinea pigs for experiments in human starvation. In the current Journal of Clinical Psychology, the results are reported by the researchers (Drs. Joseph C. Franklin, Burtrum C. Schiele, Josef Brozek, Ancel Keys) who conducted the experiments at the University of Minnesota's laboratory of physiological hygiene...
Rats, says Specialist Nicholes, were once wild creatures, living on fruits and seeds. But at some remote date, far back in human prehistory, rats made a momentous decision. "Why," they asked themselves, "should we work so hard for a living...
There is at least a chance that rats will outlive the human race. Most species of animals die out because they have over-specialized and cannot adapt themselves to a new condition. Human beings, for example, have specialized in brains. If humans are destroyed because of their own super-smartness, rats may eventually take their place as the earth's dominant species. They are more adaptable than any other animal, and are somewhat like the primitive, generalized mammals that inherited the earth at the close of the age of reptiles...
...sentimental people. . . ." But the 6,000-odd movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar as the best supporting actor for his very human, slightly balmy Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Celeste Holm was named the best supporting actress for her acid other-womanizing in Gentleman's Agreement...
Professor Elliott maintained that at least one value, "the human soul," could not be discovered empirically, but only through "insight" and "religious experience...