Word: human
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is rumored on the campus that Miss True's salary is one that many a savant would be glad to have, she lives most simply, and is most human and unassuming. Her work is a triumph for womankind...
...feeling the days slip by. When he wants to hide, Schomburg seems near, watching like a cat, keeping him in reach with a careless paw. The dancer informs Schomburg of their whereabouts, believing him Ibrahim's wise but unappreciated doctor. Thus there is suspense, leading to a pathetic, human, amusing climax that no reviewer should reveal. Author Dekobra has motored all through Europe, tiger-hunted in the Congo, canoed up the Nile, translated Daniel DeFoe, Jack London and O. Henry into French. Famed in 15 languages is his novel The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, in which a character...
With the situation here in its present uncertain state, many men of distinct dramatic talent are discouraged from coming to this supposedly anti-theatrical college. There is a growing belief that Harvard is neglecting one of the major outlets of human expression, and in a civilization so obviously effected by the theatre as that of the present day, this impression can not continue without ultimately retarding the progress of the University...
...airtight method of arriving at a true cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties of the situation...
...afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically in one of the subdivisions of the class of Colloidal Aggregates...