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Word: human (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...herself and her peers she makes one of her characters say: ''Although their rights have been curtailed, they are all the same expected to keep isolated, to live as though they had no human passions, desires, feelings. Much has been taken from them but little has been given them in return, hardly even the belief in their superiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scratching Queen | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...life must be recognized; the real rewards go to the innovators for their vision and originality. There is little but the ego of man which is increased by knowledge "of wide surface and small depth", or as President Conant expressed it, "Few of the values which feed the human soul can be found by studying mere information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SELECTIVE PRINCIPLE | 1/15/1937 | See Source »

...tame the Stock Exchange. There could be no question of the adequacy of his background of learning or of the keen edge of his mind. He had been called the most brilliant student at Harvard Law School since the days of Justice Brandeis. But what of his knowledge of human nature, his impartiality, his willingness to learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW DEAN OF THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...result, the public service of Mr. Landis must be ranked as one of the brightest spots in the New Deal record. He takes to the direction of the Harvard Law School a wealth of training with concrete human problems. He left a professorship of law to perform this important public service. He returns with an experience that cannot fail to influence the course of legal training for a generation to come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW DEAN OF THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...twelve brightest stars, but it started from the 14th magnitude. If Gamma becomes a nova, starting from the first or second magnitude, it will be brilliantly visible in broad daylight. And imaginative persons have suggested that the outpouring of injurious ultraviolet radiation may be so strong that human beings would have to carry umbrellas coated with lead before venturing under the glare of "Nova Cassiopeiae." Other highlights of the astronomers' convention: Nos- 60, 61, 62. In the sun hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, carbon, nitrogen, and many another terrestrial element have been identified by comparing the solar spectrum with very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sky Men | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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