Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born 52 years ago in Haverhill, Mass., brisk, self-assured Harlan True Stetson was once a physics instructor at Dartmouth, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan. He has traveled on five solar eclipse expeditions, belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty...
...with the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Archibald Campbell Colston, transformed one pseudohermaphrodite by grafting a pair of testicles taken from a healthy 18-year-old Maryland convict a few minutes after he was hanged. The cure lasted for three years, when the patient lost his self-confidence, regained his effeminate obesity, disappeared...
Another hermaphrodite refused decisive plastic surgery because he made a living by self-exhibition in a circus...
Because Westchester's substantial, commuting Episcopalians do not relish worshiping at "mission stations," run by the New York diocese, the committee recommended that certain of the 14 Westchester missions be made into parishes, self-respecting and locally controlled. Likewise -though none had expressed any desire to -the committee suggested that failing Manhattan parishes be moved to fastest-growing Westchester...
Poet Heine, lover of paradox, led a life full of contradiction. Born in Düsseldorf, 1797 he grew up in a period when libertarianism alternated with the fiercest repression. There was revolution in France, in Germany there were pogroms. Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. Artistically the most German of Germans, he spent the major part of his creative life in exile. A gallant, he fell finally in love...