Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such intangible but potentially powerful ideas that the value of sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
...year, yes, but also a year when all Americans who believe in the possibilities of the human mind for further progress, happiness and common benefit should stand firm and resist the forces of retrogression. President Conant ended his address--one of the best he has yet made--with a declaration which should awaken a virile response both inside and outside of the Harvard brotherhood. --The Boston Herald
...sure that many World War veterans will agree with you, possibly even a great majority of them that U. S. participation in the World War was in vain, that human life was sacrificed to rescue ill-placed private property. I am equally certain that World War veterans and good U. S. citizens stand almost united in condemning you for using the disabled for purposes of commercial advertising. Certainly every red-blooded citizen must denounce you for calling them "suckers...
...Human Blanks. Although Adolf Hitler was in full swing with a campaign to elect an entire new German Reichstag, he had not yet announced this week the names of any of the 661 candidates for whom Germans will vote. Reason: they are all human blanks, der Führer's stooges, and their names do not matter. Latest German electioneering transports were in the remilitarized Rhineland where 25,000 jammed a domed hall from the balcony of which floated a white banner reading, "THE WORLD LOOKS TOWARD HITLER - BUT DER FüHRER LOOKS TO YOU! EACH VOTE...
Father: As a Professor, you may understand, I just said, "the RELAXATION of the conscious mentality,"- to STILL one's self individually, collectively, is the main essential. The human mind can never find the hidden things or the mysteries of GOD. That is the great thought...