Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio switch and dials. It registers programs received, whether a program was tuned de liberately or found by dial twisting, whether it was heard through the full period, tuned out at any point, or kept on only after unsuccessful search for something better. Eliminating memory and other human fallibilities from listener-interest testing, Audimeters should tell advertisers just what audience he has and precisely what in his program, if anything, drives an audience away. Independent of telephones, the survey should sample the 13,000,000 radio owners who are without phone service...
...Show me a nigger who can do a problem in Euclid or parse a Greek verb," jeered Southern Statesman John C. Calhoun before the Civil War, "and I'll admit he's a human being." Since that challenge the doors of higher learning have swung slowly open to U. S. Negroes. Last week the Julius Rosenwald Fund, making its annual fellowship awards, had no trouble finding Negroes to fulfill the Calhoun specifications for a human being...
...slouch as a human being, either physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics...
...shops there is a liberal education, for there he learned practical economics and "a good deal about human relations between workers and employers." He continues, "Courses are given in college on industrial relations, but no one can quite appreciate the relationship between workers and management or among workers themselves, unless he has worked at the bench...
...just as archaic diction seems false, so does archaic temper, and living poets' art must be as "contemporaneous as our banking or our locomotion." In the modern world people seek "isolated perfections" in the different realms of human life, poets no less than others. Professor Ransom deplores this, because it makes the beauty of "pure" poetry cloistered and the beauty of "obscure" poetry teasing and evasive. As a means of bringing poetry back to the position it once held, he suggests that writers study those elements in human experience that cannot be dissociated. But, he says, he makes...