Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sixth year, Dr. Butler reminded them of the gruelling entrance tests of fifty years ago. He was frank enough to say that not only could no member of the present student body meet those tests, but that no member of its faculty could. That does not mean that the human brain is no longer able to grasp such erudition. It is merely a comment on the changing standards...
...statesmen or tycoons of the kind which stepped on U. S. shores last week, the U. S. has none whatever. For he is a man who (one may presume) would not deny except in modesty that his brilliant conversation has charmed many beautiful women, that wine accelerates the human faculties, perhaps even that a game of chance may produce a fine exhilaration. He is representative of the British notion that the highroad to success, even in politics 'or business, is not paved entirely with the virtues that the parson preaches of Sundays-that, in fact, its finest pavings...
...Soviet Government by its decision today will probably make the greatest single contribution to human advancement in this remote and dreaded part of middle Asia since Russia was founded 1,000 years...
...Russian Imperial governments of other days set out to conquer Turkestan for the Tsars. The Soviet regime is wisely using more peaceful and productive methods of conquest by making the rivers give life to thousands of square miles for new human habitations, hundreds of thou sands of cattle and camels and millions of acres of agricultural products...
Searching for a human interest story, sentimental correspondents hurried to another part of the jail to interview executioner de Pineda, the condemned Rabano's onetime friend. They found him in his cell, nervously munching bread and onions...