Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testing. In Baltimore, Liquor Dealer Albert Steinberg reluctantly handed over $100 to a holdup man who tossed back the cash and said: "I don't want your money. I just wanted to see how much guts...
...Signo. In Washington, police were looking for a tall (6 ft.) man in his seventies, wearing faded blue overalls, who had passed more than a dozen bum checks all signed with...
...inference was so obvious that Dr. Diamond and his colleagues have not dared to use a man's blood since. Of 45 later cases given the blood of female donors, only one was lost, and that child was almost dead at birth. Other children's hospitals have switched to female donors for this type of exchange transfusion and are building up higher columns of hopeful figures. Dr. Diamond, though he still has no idea what the protective substance in a woman's blood may be, is looking for ways to use it in other children...
Your story and editorial comment on the Student Council's plan to investigate the effect of a Harvard education on the "whole man" interested me greatly. This investigation, as you observed, will probably be a worthwhile undertaking. Perhaps it will materialize into an extension of the admirable effort which the General Education Committee's report began. But I hope I am not being unduly skeptical if I suggest that the nature of the inquiry will limit the findings to a very broad outline, and that this outline is already visible. It is really not necessary to launch an elaborate four...
...initial difficulty attendant to this problem is finding a good definition of the term "whole man." Is he the "complete Rabelaisian man" to whom Aldous Huxley refers: "great eater, deep drinker, stout fighter, prodigious lover, clear thinker, creator of beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To know whether or not Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore...