Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Veneration for the sepulchre and reverence for the dead belong to the most ancient instincts of the human race. . . . This day the discord of party passion divides us not. ... . There are no minority views in this committee's report. It is accepted by unanimous consent without debate. That report constitutes the epitaph of ... seven strong men. . . . Their roll calls have all been answered. Their speeches have all been uttered. Their offices have been vacated by the decree of fate. Soon others will occupy their places. ... It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of life in which one surrenders...
...wanted more than anything else in the world was to do something to lessen this horror. When I was in the university laying bricks, mixing cement and learning how to erect steel girders, I began to figure out a way to perfect something which would conserve not only human life but materials. These bombproof houses are the result...
Despite Dr. Sondern's attempted interruptions, Lord Horder talked about practically every topic which came to his mind or the minds of the ship reporters. Someone asked him about lengthening human life. Lord Horder: "Don't people live long enough? How to live more happily would be rather more to the point. People are living longer. Every year their expectation of life at any given age is increasing. But what is the use of living longer if we are not happy with economic conditions what they are and the infernal noise of cities, and with machinery we have...
Eight years ago U. S. readers were mostly unaware that the late great German Army had been made up of human beings. To the few that read it, a little book called Way of Sacrifice, by a Prussian officer who had fought before Verdun, came with the shock of revelation. Few months later a much wider U. S. audience was discovering The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Though it never became such an enormous seller as All Quiet on the Western Front, it soon ranked as a modern classic, has sold nearly 250,000 copies in English translation alone. Those...
...appear), but the second in his time scheme, Education Before Verdun seeks to repeat Sergeant Grischa's case in terms of the Western Front. Perhaps because its inhumanly terrible story is not so concentrated, the sympathy it arouses is more diffused, less trenchant. Perhaps any plot based on human relationships loses much of its poignancy when staged before the plotless chaos of Verdun; the scenes readers will find most memorable are the ones in which that impersonally erupting background is most to the fore...