Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully formulating his words, the President answered in a tone of reproof: "It is a great disservice to the proper administration of any government to link up human misery with partisan politics...
...Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or virus which causes that disease (TIME, Aug. 3). But many doctors think it probable that some infectious agencies change their form in different environments. The question remained: While human influenza could be communicated to ferrets, could ferret influenza be communicated...
Swimmer: Gee, I just can't grasp that I'm in a palace talking to royalty. Why Prince, you're so human-just like we other folks. I never thought you looked so young or could act so natural. I came into this room trembling all over. You made me feel at home immediately...
...front cover) Old history is in books and new on front pages. Yet neither tells the whole story of a people, a period, a place. Behind the extraordinary news in the papers, the decisive events described by historians, lies a mass of anonymous, miscellaneous human happenings, comprising the routine stuff of daily living. This is private history and, though it rarely gets into public history, it outweighs soldiers and statesmen, battles and booms, in the final balance of time...
Thus Dos Passos intimates that the stories of his characters are not exceptional or unique, that the waste, confusion, purposelessness in their lives, as well as their good human qualities and inborn talents also appear in the lives of famed figures in public history...