Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip on the roller coaster at Revere--the speed, twists, and turns are even less threatening. The only distinguishing feature is the pleasure, If such it be, of exposing all the most valued parts of the anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only metaphorically spit in the eye of the law of gravity...
...wooed him back in 1927. In 1932 radio was looking for newspapermen who had firm, friendly voices in addition to rich experience in reporting, in travel, and in simplifying world events. They found Edwin C. Hill, whos sought no radio news scoops but brought to his audiences the "human side of the news." For along time his voice boomed out for Hearts's newsreel. Just as Hearst took his name from Hearst Metrotone news, Mr. Hill voluntarily left the employ of the Lord of San Simeon and his pictures of Pacific battle fleets. Edwin C. Hill is now heard weekly...
Licensed men (masters, mates, pilots, engineers) won pay increases and other benefits but conceded the right of shipowners to pick ships' officers and employ non-union men. Two of the seven striking unions had not yet reached agreements, but settlements were expected by arbitration or otherwise. Human nature in the West had grown just as weary as in the East...
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Samuel Hoare made it perfectly clear to the House that these five human barnacles of His Majesty's Navy had been scraped off without ceremony, sympathy or public trial. Said Sir Samuel: "His Majesty's Government would have preferred to put charges to the men, but that would have betrayed and therefore made useless the secret service of His Majesty's Government. The evidence has been checked and counterchecked many ways, finally by a committee of high civil servants...
...nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle of mud and blood, died before any human could reach...