Word: mans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bombs laden with disease germs, another persistent bugaboo of modern warfare, are shrugged off by bacteriologists. Man, they say, can culture and concentrate disease organisms, but it is hardly likely that he can start epidemics in civil populations unless he reproduces the conditions, many of which are still unknown, which make natural epidemics possible...
...some years Harvard University's anthropological Cassandra, Professor Earnest Albert Hooton, has incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937), and that is still his message in Twilight of Man, published last week.* "Here," says Dr. Hooton, "is more raucous crying in the wilderness. . . . Human behavior has continued to deteriorate." Hooton feels that his is a voice in a wilderness because: 1) men like...
Twilight of Man is illustrated with Hooton's own drawings, one of which thoroughly illustrates the phenomenon of steatopygia - an accumulation of fat on the posterior - which appears in the females of some primitive human types, and which probably helped some women of the Glacial Period to keep warm when skimpier males crowded them from the fire. Hooton "apologizes" for his drawings thus: "Amateur illustration by an author is like profanity in conversation. It probably serves no useful purpose and certainly is shocking and objectionable to many, but the perpetrator enjoys...
...Hampstead, England. Throughout his last 16 years he suffered pain from cancer of the jaw, saw his books burned by Nazis, his ideas distorted by exaggeration, overpopularity, licentious application. Never lamenting his persecution and illness, he waited for death patiently, his only complaint: "It is tragic when a man outlives his body...
...Most versatile of the brood, Vitamin A is the only one which is synthesized by animals from their plant food. It is found in the livers and yellow body fat of most animals, can be stored up by man for many months. For adequate production and storage of vitamin A, a diet should be abundant in "thin green leaves," bright yellow fruits, vegetables such as carrots, corn, sweet potatoes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, a failing as common in the U. S. today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize...