Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations be "divorced" from the Treaty of Versailles of which it is an integral part were seconded by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He appeared to feel that only by rewriting the Treaty to suit Germany could that country be induced to rejoin the League. "Human life is not static," argued Captain Eden, "but is rather a changing thing." The Assembly last week did nothing about this Eden proposal...
...over the transatlantic phone to Mr. Morgenthau for whom the time in Washington was nearer 7 p. m. Cried weary but still dynamic M. Auriol: "Messieurs, the entente which we have concluded constitutes the start of Monetary Peace! And that, Messieurs, is a prior condition for Economic Peace, for Human Peace...
When the Whites had finally won, Spain's young West Pointers were found to be not the half-starved "human scarecrows" the Madrid radio had been calling them, but adequately nourished and mostly wearing beards that had grown during the 71 days of the siege. Of 1,800 persons in the Alcázar, including white women and children who had taken refuge with the Cadets, only 80 were found to have lost their lives and only 500 had suffered wounds of various sorts, though the entire upper structure of the Alcázar had been pounded to jagged...
...members, according to a survey made at University of Illinois, are better nourished and better developed than their predecessors, 87% of them being in "good-to-excellent physical shape." Its New England members, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the tallest group of human beings in the world, 178.03 centimeters (circa 5 ft. 10 in.). First official act of the Class of 1940 as it gathered in its new colleges was to hear addresses of welcome and counsel from its new presidents. Newsworthy presidential soundoffs...
...whom she used to play in the back yard of the Hoffman house on Manhattan's West 43rd St. It was while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge of excitement at the sight of the nude human figure that is the driving force behind most great sculptures. A suicidal beauty across the street slipped out of her nightgown and dived into a snowbank 30 feet below, narrowly missing a passing postman...