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Word: humanizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front. In a recent interview with a reporter, Cripps was stiffly formal. To almost every question he objected: "Well, you really can't ask that," or "Sorry, but that's Cabinet policy." At last Lady Cripps broke in: "Now, Papa, why can't you be more human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Fronti Nulla Fides. Cripps in his non-public character is warmly human. His family motto "Fronti Nulla Fides" (Trust Not to Outward Show) is appropriate; he scorns good fellowship in appealing to voters, preferring facts, figures and measured arguments, but British workers have always sensed the warmth of the man behind the prim bearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Cancer tissue, as researchers have long known, can easily be transplanted from one mammalian species to another. When Dr. Greene grafted human cancer tissue on a guinea pig's eye (a nourishing and easy-to-watch site for experiment), the transplanted cancer thrived in its new environment. But his efforts to transplant normal adult human tissue to the guinea pig's eye failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In a Guinea Pig's Eye | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Eight denied the doctrine of original sin; 30 decided that there was "a tendency toward evil in human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Belief or Opinion? | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...system's chief working parts (as applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Easy on the Curves | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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