Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...save them-the agony of Britain's waiting loomed like a symbol of modern war: it was as if, at the last moment before the blow fell, the people who believed that they were steeled to meet it found that they were not, that there remained one human sacrifice they were not prepared to make...
...most popular educational shows at the New York World's Fair is the Medicine & Public Health exhibit. In the shadowy Hall of Man stand countless glorifications of the human body-a swaying four-foot ear, a talking skeleton, a mechanical biceps, a huge plaster brain studded with push buttons. Through the Hall echoes the muffled beat of an invisible, mechanical heart...
Reactions to the BBC broadcasts to date indicate that English small fry are not much interested in military strategy, are not morbidly appalled by fearful human slaughter. They like to hear reports of exciting sea battles, are intense in their concern for young refugees. Most overwhelming response to any broadcast was the profound shock that greeted the news that all German dogs were to be immediately destroyed...
...That previous attempts, including those of famed Ernst Kretschmer of Germany, to sort human physiques had bogged down in a welter of mixed types, subtypes, hybrid types, etc., because individuals would not fit preconceived categories. Sheldon attacked the pigeonholing problem from another angle: that of three structural components or characteristics (of his own devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three...
Components & Types. In The Varieties of Human Physique (Harper; $4.50), a summary of his work which he published last week, Dr. Sheldon describes and defines his three components. They are called endomorphic, mesomorphic and ectomorphic because the prominent features of each are derived, respectively, from the embryo's endoderm or inner layer (abdominal organs), the mesoderm or middle layer (bones, muscles, connective tissue, heart, blood vessels), and the ectoderm or outer layer (skin, hair, nails, sense organs, nervous system, brain...