Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terrible Racket. The human ear, Dr. Davis observes, is a miraculous instrument. It is normally so finely tuned that...
Please let me be amongst the first to nominate and plead for your recognition of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as the Woman of the Year. Her unstinting work in behalf of human relations has been unquestionably outstanding...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
Body Broadcasts. They collected data on vapors and discovered that all those studied which have odors can absorb certain bands of infra-red with waves between 7½ and 14 microns long. Vapors without odors do not absorb these wave lengths. Since the human body at normal temperature radiates heat waves chiefly m the 7½-14 band, it looked as if the ability to absorb heat waves on the "body's broadcast frequency" is what makes vapors smellable...
Vapor Blends. Human beings are harder to test. Their smelling apparatus is deeply buried in the upper nasal passages, where it cannot be blocked off from the vapors by heat-transparent barriers. Beck & Miles hope to lick this problem somehow when they get an infra-red spectrometer for studying the wavelength of fragrances...