Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astrologists claim that mysterious vibrations from distant stars influence human characteristics and abilities. Like every other scientist in good academic standing, Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth of Stanford University views this claim with extreme skepticism. Last week he reported a statistical check of the horoscope makers on one specific point...
...bill which can be guaranteed to rush through House and Senate like a flogged sailor running the gamut is the biennial highway bill, authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars for U. S. roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller...
...crusading years its period, draws a bead on Regent Prince John's tax oppression that should bring a nod from every liberty-loving Britisher who can afford the admission price after his 27½% income tax is paid. In the course of his swashbuckling defense of human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights his way out of bristling Nottingham castle; gets poll-thwacked off a foot-log by doughty Little John (Alan Hale, a veteran of the Fairbanks Robin Hood) and ducked by puddingy Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette), takes...
...blurred, a few merely smears and jagged lines. When Critic Boyd announced solemnly that the greatest show on earth properly began with man, television illustrated the observation with a mysterious shapeless blob of shadow that could not by any stretch of the imagination be called a representation of a human being. Observers nevertheless agreed that the review as a whole gave a strong impression of what the book was all about, an even stronger impression that it would be a long time before television book reviewing became a common practice...
...greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...