Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monkey with malaria. He found a radical change in the red cells: instead of flowing independently, they were clumped together in sluggish masses. Knisely and his group went on to study the circulation in other diseased animals. Sure enough, sludged blood turned up in every animal and human being suffering from severe injury or disease. All told, they found red-cell clumping associated with over 50 conditions, from the common cold to hysteria...
...freedom can be secured without the separation of church and state, as in Great Britain; and, on the other hand, that the separation of church and state does not of itself ensure the full religious freedom of citizens or churches, as in Russia. . . . The problems of ... the enmeshing in human life of power, reason and conscience are too vast and intricate to be solved by the mere separation of church and state. We must go beyond this to a sound, positive statement of their respective functions and proper relations...
Nebraska put in a claim last week to having the oldest inhabitants of the U.S. Dr. C. Bertrand Schultz, of the University of Nebraska, told of finding ancient camp sites which may have been human hangouts before the last glacial advance...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...counteract "the growing disillusionment of today; which not only dims and obscures the present, but is trying to cloud the past." The past which he has called to mind, dwarfed in part by the mighty events which followed it, nevertheless seems in retrospect one of the great periods of human history: the 50 destroyers; the 90 consecutive days of the bombing of London; the time of Churchill's inspired speeches, which seem to grow more significant and moving as more light is shed on their origins; the time when it seemed that there really was a new spirit abroad...