Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches were the words of professionals, of men who knew the human side of their work as well as the technical, and some of their words moved. Facilely the head of the University saw in the meeting the embryonic idea of a brilliant educational innovation: the School of Public Administration. Two other views were presented with clarity and deep understanding such as proceed from long experience and reasoning. From two different angles an approach to the practicable ideal of security and happiness was impressed upon a growing generation...
...observations which might be tedious in another play, such as those on the basic goodness of human nature and the limitless folly of war, are saved in this one through having them spoken by an extremely typical American with a rasping nasal drawl and a fondness for clinches. Heroics, chivalry, and faith are so out of place in this American handyman with his pack of dancing girls, that they come with the freshness of surprise...
Archaeology may not be a very exciting subject for the movies, but "The Human Adventure" is thoroughly entertaining, whether you know anything about archaeology or not. Much of the photography was done from an airplane, giving an excellent panorama of the Orient. Reproductions of the Tower of Babel and of Solomon's stables; the great art and architecture of the Palace of Darias; the hundred-foot-high Arch of Gtesiphon, which has withstood the storms of two thousand years; weapons used at Armageddon long before St. John's famous prophecy--scenes like these more than make up for the inevitable...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...
...last decade there has been a distinct advance in the position of the dog. His steady rise in public esteem and the increased acknowledgment of his definite part in complex human relations is encouraging. The dog does not contend, he merely adds his measure to qualities of which this world has never had enough. Loyalty is a favorite word in our vocabularies. It is a luminous word, direct and simple. May we pledge it anew to the cause of those quiet friends who have helped us to interpret and define its meaning...