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Word: humanizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANOPLIES: Caloric Crusader | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...know that sex is supposed to be one of God's greatest gifts to the human race," said the Venerable Donald B. Harris, archdeacon of Bedford, "but it has become misused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blatantly Easy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Change of Venue | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

This indicates they are a team to be respected, but at least they're human...

Author: By Bayard Hoofer, | Title: Dartmouth May Make Traditional Trouble | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

Fortunately for most of the weekend invaders, "I Was a Male War Bride" has moved from the Metropolitan. This citadel of fine films now presents "Task Force," starring Gary Cooper," a sweeping cavalcade that sweeps (sic) the world's oceans to bring you the rich, human story of the men who stood by what they believed in--AND THE WOMEN WHO STOOD BESIDE THEIR MEN." Includes secret Navy combat films if that's your idea...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

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