Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that gentlemen in well-warmed and well-stocked clubs will discourse on the expenses of government and the suffering that they are going through because the Government is spending money for work relief. I wish I could take some of these men out on the battle line of human necessity and show them the facts that we in the Government are facing. . . . "Last April I stated what I have held to consistently ever since-that it was the hope of the Administration that by some time in November of this year we would substantially end the dole. ... It gives...
...dealt with this subject as long (15 years) and as intimately in thousands of individual cases, as patiently and sympathetically as I have tried to do, you would conclude, as I have, that not war, nor famine, nor pestilence have brought so much suffering and pain to the human race, as have hasty, ill-advised marriages, unions entered into without the knowledge, the preparation, the thought even an important commercial contract merits and receives. God made marriage an indissoluble contract, Christ made it a sacrament, the world today has made it a plaything of passion, an accompaniment...
...needle has done nothing but War scenes. Three weeks ago Manhattan's Keppel Galleries held an exhibition of his recent work, published a little pamphlet reprinting a few of them along with the first essay he has ever written. Its conclusion : "It is said that war is human nature- that we always have had wars and always will-I do not believe it. Something can be done about it. God knows it is human nature to have syphilis. Nothing could be done about it but to die horribly until one man after six hundred and six tries found that...
...should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power has been underestimated and the process of education, before settlement into gainful occupation and marriage, has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
Died. James Henry Breasted, 70, famed Orientalist, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept...