Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave the pit to him. When the door into the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door. . . . Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch...
...impossible. Last week, however, they found Neville Chamberlain willing to confirm the Irishman's tale in all details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story of all time about Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Privy Councilor to His Majesty...
That could be practiced on the human heart...
...famed Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8:59.6. That, except for Nurmi's indoor record of 8:58.2, made on a board track at Madison Square Garden in 1925, is the fastest time ever recorded for a human runner over the distance. Track coaches have generally considered it, of all existing marks, the least susceptible to improvement...
...Congress' banquet there were further alarms. President S. Wells Utley of Detroit Steel Casting Co. prophesied: "This coming campaign ... is one of the great decisive battles of the human race, and upon it hangs the future of our civilization. . . ." President Alex Dow of Detroit Edison Co. rambled through the question of the relations of women with business. The program closed on a foreboding note. Mme Alexandrine Cantacuzene, granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, talked on "Property Confiscation under a Revolutionary Government...