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Word: human (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freddie Bartholomew is precise-dictioned and a little more human than usual during the few moments he is on the screen; from then on Tyrone Power (Freddie grown up) continues the adventures of Jonathan Blake. Power is adequate to the part but exhibits a slight inclination toward striking poses. Had it not been for careful directing, he might have carried this tendency too far. Madeleine Carroll makes a lovely, sympathetic heroine...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: AT THE METROPOLITAN | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...mates, assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that the steamship companies should continue to shoulder this burden; all he wants is to dictate whom the companies shall employ. But there is as yet no "automatic pilot" for ships, and the human element is still by far the most important. Obviously therefore, aside from all consideration of the inherent unfairness of the monopolistic demand of Mr. Bridges, human safety demands that those responsible be given unfettered freedom to select men who will provide that safety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

...queer he actually became was related last week by Authors von Meek & Bowen, in a full-dress, 484-page biography that Tchaikovsky addicts will find sympathetic, non-musical readers interesting if partly incomprehensible. With only a slight stiffening of technical talk and musical illustration, "Beloved Friend" is a revealing human document on the genus musician, Russian species. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, known to friend & foe alike as "the culmination- almost the last stand-of the Romantic Movement in music," was a Petersburg law student of 22 when he first became seriously interested in music. Once he caught fire he blazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Musician | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...available to them, no matter in what part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANGELL, DODDS, BUTLER FAVOR APTITUDE TESTS | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...which no instructional data is now available anywhere and therefore it will be necessary for the faculty to proceed cautiously and to seek the advice of experienced government men frequently. The university officials realize, it was explained, that public administration, now broadening its activities into new fields of human endeavor, is creating a demand for a type of training different from that heretofore provided and it is this demand which the school will seek to fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School Will Open March 1 for Exploratory Session Without Students | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

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