Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington the previous week in regard to eye prophylaxis at birth, the statement is made that "The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a "subcommittee had to be appointed to deal with it."The chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist." You further quote Dr. George C. Ruhland, District Health Officer, as saying, "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." May I take issue with Dr. Ruhland on this point, for thousands of individuals have been healed...
...saying he proceeded to cement international good will by a few kind words and topical references. "We [Canada & the U. S.] have the same definition of what constitutes greatness and goodness in human character. . . . We give our admiration and affection to the same type of leadership. Will anyone deny that your great men and our great men are singularly alike at bottom...
...American Language: "The trouble with all the 'universal' languages is that the juices of life are simply not in them. They are the creations of scholars drowning in murky oceans of dead prefixes and suffixes, and so they fail to meet the needs of a highly human world." Freestyle Philologist Mencken feels that Basic, "for all its deficiencies," is better than any artificial tongue because it is derived from a living...
...best, least fatiguing posture and movement those unit masses of flesh and bone, she reasons, should counter-balance so that the body's centre of gravity lies in the sacrum (base of the spine). When the human animal stands properly erect, an imaginary line should cut the nose, chin, breastbone and crotch. Another imaginary line should drop from the mastoid, in front of the shoulder joint, through the elbow and little finger (palm turned to the rear), side of knee and ankle. This is achieved by standing with feet together, shoulders held back, abdomen tucked in, buttocks clenched...
...confessed "necessitarian." "I know, I know it very well, I never forget this, but that is the tragedy (I promise you 'tragedy' is not too strong a word!) of our position; that we have to act in such a way . . . after all we are not creating 'human material' for ourselves, but are taking, and cannot refuse, what is given...