Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human being, Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip is a large, lugubrious, burly man with a commanding voice and manner. These may be qualities of value in standing up to the truculent British generals, admirals and air marshals of the Committee of Imperial Defense. The Prime Minister not only appointed Sir Thomas his deputy last week but also raised him to full Cabinet rank as Britain's first Secretary of State for Coordination of Defense...
...fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including the Jews." Although most Communists are outspoken against Fascists, Comrade Troyanovsky digressed to praise Benito Mussolini for "not dishonoring himself by anti-Semitic words or deeds...
...Bowman Called into immediate council, Hopkins facultymen found their new president a square-cut, energetic, conservatively handsome man who looked and acted far younger than his 57 years. He won their admiration at once by the thoroughness and courage with which he tackled Hopkins' troubles. On the human side, however, they found him harder to know, wondered for a time what was behind his courteous, smiling but aloof manner. They have now decided that it is chiefly an intense absorption in his job. After eight months, most of the strangeness between Baltimore and President Bowman has worn...
Over a period of five years Dr. Allport and his associate presented a homicidal questionnaire to 200 Harvard students and no young women of Radcliffe. The psychologists laid down eight possible motives for taking human life, asked their subjects to list them in order, from what they considered the most justified to the least...
...nearly a century men have tried to work out a practical machine that would displace the millions of human fingers which have picked cotton since the time of Eli Whitney. Inventive John D. Rust hit on the idea of using a moistened, rotating spindle to which the cotton in open bolls would stick. His brother Mack, who had gone to college and worked for General Electric, came to help him. Last year, after successful experiments in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, the Rust Cotton Harvester began to attract nationwide attention (TIME, April...