Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreeable group calling itself the Society for the Betterment of the Human Race picked three men and three women who have, it announced, the "natural endowments" to be the ideal "eugenic parents." The perfect ancestors turned out to be Cinemactors Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, Radio Singer Jack Smith, and Jane Russell, Betty Grable, Linda Darnell...
...DeRobertis and F. O. Schmitt of Massachusetts Institute of Technology had seen the insides of nerve fibers. Each fiber looked like a telephone cable, full of parallel threads about one half-millionth of an inch thick. Human nerves and the nerves of frogs, lobsters and squids are all made in this...
Professor Taylor's fiery furnace for testing airborne Shadrachs is made from a big steel cylinder with a fan blowing dry air into it, past an outside battery of electric grids. The human guinea pig is wheeled in, reclining in a canvas chair and festooned with electric thermometers. The first experiments were rather cautious; then Taylor and his staff increased the temperature in the hotbox until it passed the boiling point of water (212° F). The victims came out uncooked and not permanently damaged...
...Geneva, at the Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt diagnosed the basic ailment. Americans, she thought, "are not completely sure of our ability to make democracy work...
...mystery of the common cold is still a mystery. The latest attempt to penetrate the Kleenex curtain ended, as usual, in a sneeze. For 18 months of experiment, volunteer human guinea pigs had sniffled and hawked at Harvard Hospital near Salisbury, England (TIME, Feb. 3). For the greater glory of medicine, they had snuffed up nasal washings containing other people's cold viruses, submitted themselves to ten days of scientific observation...