Word: humanness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syrup of human kindness. Sweeter and stickier than the milk. See THEATER, The Sound of Music...
...keep up -with the news, an intelligent human being has to watch the language. It lives and changes constantly, with the development of new words and expressions and new uses for old words and expressions. Keeping up with the language in this week's TIME: aminotriazole. Bad for Thanksgiving. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cranberry Boggle (Contd.). crotchet. A quarter note. See Music, Family Orchestra...
...sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Tour...
When the medical world was agog over the discovery that blood circulates through the body, imaginative surgeons tried to transfuse sheep's blood into human patients weakened by too generous bloodletting. Since they had never heard of such things as protein compatibility, it is small wonder that most patients died. In 1678 the French Parliament banned transfusions. Nowadays, no doctor would dream of transfusing animal blood to man. But last week, the medical world was again agog over a report that Italian physicians had used a sheep's blood to help clear the system of a woman dying...
...noted that leaders in this country have an increasing awareness of the non-rational and irrational forces in human behavior...