Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great deal of talk about the peril to our institutions and the peril to freedom in our modern world today. From what I know of the lessons of history, our institutions and our freedom are not in peril today. . . . What I have learned from history is that very few human institutions are killed while they are still alive...
Thus did the public affirm its recognition of a line performance, its sympathy for Mary Astor's position in her recent suit to get custody of her daughter (TIME, Aug. 17 & 24). Meanwhile Fate had brought Mary Astor the greatest picture, the most human and sympathy-winning role of her life just when she needed it most. Dodsworth, a forthright investigation of a universal problem, tells the story of a man battling to save his marriage from his wife's desire to keep young by cutting amorous capers. Sam sold his Revelation Motor Co. because Fran (Ruth Chatterton...
...Methodist missionary in 1907, has since made frequent excursions to the U. S., has sent forth several best-selling books. -The Christ of the Indian Road (over 600,000 copies), Christ at the Round Table, The Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...
...each of last week's meetings Missionary Jones set the themes which probably half a million Protestants will hear before Christmas. Samples: ''The gospel will solve every human problem. . . . The Kingdom of God is for all of Man. . . . The Kingdom of God as Jesus described it is founded directly on good will and brotherhood-life as it ought to be. . . . Poverty is not the will of the God who intended the earth to be beautiful. We could banish poverty tomorrow if this thing of the Kingdom of God were taken seriously by Christians. We have the technique...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science is much more attentive to the condition of the world and to its own place in human society than is the corresponding body in the U. S. Staging its annual meeting in Blackpool on the sandy shores of industrial Lancashire last week, BAAS had the usual number of sheltered sectional conferences on such subjects as Representation by squares and quadratic integers in a real quadratic corpus and The ecology of young salmon. But. aside from the astronomical lucubrations of Sir James Jeans and one or two other luminaries, the speeches that made most...