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Word: human (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE'S WOLSEY A TRIUMPH | 10/16/1916 | See Source »

...most interesting problems was the condition which is now known as 'shell shock.' In no previous was have troops been subject to such violent and continuous bombardment with high explosives, and it is therefore but natural that the extent to which the human nervous system can stand such a strain has never heretofore been so thoroughly tested. It also follows that the susceptibility of troops to such conditions varies considerably with their nationality and still more with individual peculiarities of temperament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH UNIT CARED FOR 8000 | 10/13/1916 | See Source »

...Hopkins, both in his knowledge of he human and fundamental conditions of the business world today, and in his knowledge of conditions at Dartmouth, gleaned from his service in the business world, and in the realm of collegiate thought throughout the country, approximates the specialist to some extent, without cramping his abilities by a narrowing of his field of vision. He is bent on accomplishing the great and far-sighted thing. He would have men of higher education less trained for selfish and individualistic successes, than for their collective influence for good in the business community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTMOUTH'S NEW PRESIDENT | 10/7/1916 | See Source »

There is something more than a merely academic interest in the forthcoming celebration; it has a secular as well as religious significance. The Harvard Divinity School looks back over a century of institutional vicissitudes and over some of the greatest transformations in human thought. In that period theology has run the gauntlet of evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 10/4/1916 | See Source »

...finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time. --New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Battlefield for Sale. | 10/2/1916 | See Source »

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