Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatal was revealed not in Denver, to that city's relief, but in Florida, where Charles Jefferson (Goddard), self-styled film scout, raped two Miami high-school girls, and murdered one while the other, in horror, watched. Last week, convicted, he was sentenced to the electric chair...
This week, Germany replied with new menace to Britain's step of mounting guns on merchant vessels. "On the ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness...
Every leader knows that to fight a war, whether for conquest or in self-defense, he must give the young men of his nation a cause so good and just that they are willing to be ripped apart by shrapnel, choked by gas, gored by bayonets without losing the will to fight...
...speedy patching. Greatly worried by this too-common, hardboiled attitude are Dr. Elliott C. Cutler, chief surgeon of Boston's famed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and his associate, Dr. Robert Zollinger. To them surgery is not only a science but an art, a religion, and a means of self-expression. Last week they published their new folio-sized manual of surgery,* first book of its kind since 1853. Full of brief, "intimate" instructions for every type of standard operation from appendectomy to tonsillectomy, their manual is also crammed with scalpel-neat pen-drawings by Medical Artist Mildred Codding...
...self-propelled electric iron...