Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right wrist having recovered from lameness, the President threw a white baseball to Tristram Speaker to open the season for the Washington nine. Mrs. Coolidge wore a green hat, a green coat...
Compressed Living. Dr. Millard C. Marsh of Springville, N. Y., kept a batch of tumorous mice living in compressed air. Tumor growth was checked and they lived 20% longer than did healthy mice caged in fresh, open air. Humans would benefit likewise, said Dr. Marsh, if they could carry on all their activities in compression chambers...
...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly, of corrupting the young." Socrates, with brilliant irony, pleaded guilty only to an open mind; a majority of the judges, 280, steeped in Babbittry, voted him guilty. Thirty days later, conversing with weeping friends, he carried out their sentence, drank the cup of hemlock, died...
...dead of blood poisoning, his wound a stinking fester. Joseph Lister, a young surgeon in Glasgow, smelled at the festers. They reminded him of sewage; and sewage reminded him of how the city of Carlisle was deodorizing its wastes-by carbolic acid. He slopped carbolic acid on the open wounds of accident cases brought to him. The acid worked; it prevented development of horrid "hospital gangrene." Joseph Lister had discovered antisepsis and thenceforth surgery became cleanly. Surgeons now wash their hands before operating; and they wear sterilized gloves, caps and aprons, and even tie gauze masks over their mouths...