Word: benign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...
...benign efforts of the Boston American and Record to bring Williamstown under the maternal wing of Mr. Hearst do not meet with overwhelming applause, it is because the students of Williams College do not know what is good for them sufficiently well to accept protection against the ill winds blowing over from Moscow. The success of the Williams Record in forcing the manager of the local movie theater to remove from the screen the Hearst Metrotone News reached across the state with a thunder the residents of the cloistered college town are not accustomed to hear...
...heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes that man can promote or suppress the unfolding of his heredity by acts of volition. This may lead to actual physical or chemical changes in the germ-plasm, in the operation of the genes, carriers of heredity. "Such changes," said Dr. Hrdlicka, "if benign, may start differentiation, and under special circumstances, conceivably, evolution...
...players seemed lazy. But as a musical educator Conductor Damrosch was not to be defeated. National Broadcasting Co. begged him to teach school children, and he was again ready to pioneer. The Damrosch "Appreciation Hour" began by reaching a million youthful listeners. Last week it was estimated that through benign "Uncle Walter" some 6,000,000 children are learning to know great music. Proceeds of last week's Manhattan Jubilee went to the Musicians' Emergency Fund, now Damrosch's pet project. When on the same day NBC feted him on behalf of his school children...
...Obey; Jerome Mayer, producer). Playwright Obey begins this naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs...