Word: hume
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Researchers and surgeons tried pumping human blood through baboon livers as early as 1965. Since then, Virginia Commonwealth University's Dr. David Hume and a team of colleagues headed by the Medical College of Georgia's Dr. George Abouna have refined the technique. Their findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, offer new hope for many victims of liver failure...
...SCOTT M. HUME...
...ritual is called "Oldtimers' Day." In the movies, it is called There Was a Crooked Man. The combined age of the participants is Methuselahistic, and the plot is not much younger. For his game, Director Joseph Mankiewicz chose such veterans as Arthur O'Connell, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn and Martin Gabel. Together, their gray thatches look like a stand of dandelions gone to seed. One good breath and their hair might vanish, two deep ones and the picture itself might be gone-and no one the poorer...
...convicts in a western territory who try to bust out of jail. The point of view here is jaundiced to say the least; no one is to be trusted. Everybody is in the cast and everybody does well. Among them are Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Arthur O'Connell, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Warren Oates, and Lee Grant. The screenplay is by Robert Newman and David Benton, who also have Bonnie and Clyde to their credit...
...Justice Douglas' Points of Rebellion is comparable to the writings of Burke, Hume and Locke-Englishmen who brought attention to the need for reform. Britain ignored the pleas and warnings, and the American Revolution resulted. I teach history and sometimes think it is a waste of time. Instead of learning from past mistakes, we repeat them...