Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Outlook Gloomy." Thus a Viceroy, at the absolute discretion and whim of His Majesty's Government, can become overnight a totalitarian Dictator, gagging and blackjacking one-fifth of the human race at his pleasure. But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody? To this every Communist and most Socialists would reply with Professor Laski that bank directors are precisely the people who by invisible but effective means have not only been gagging and binding but bleeding India's masses to the verge of destitution, Indian bankers in this respect...
Since every Soviet citizen tries to get away from home and down to the Russian Riviera during vacation, all lodgings and food in that favorite area have been sharply upped in price this summer by the State to help Transport's Commissar discourage human transport and spur freight. Should Kaganovich ever cease to be Stalin's pet, Russians agreed last week, he can fairly be made the star defendant in a Bolshevik "Propaganda Trial" to discover what "capitalist hireling" sabotaged the entire passenger transport service of the Soviet Union...
...Charles Michael, Houston acne specialist who wrote the article, included the address he made as chairman of the skin specialists attending the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City last June. Here was a disease that has marred to some extent the face, back and chest of every other human being who ever grew up to manhood. It has gouged ugly pits in multitudes of skins. Doctors have dealt with it for 3,200 years of recorded medical history. Yet Dr. Michael, in his two cardinal discussions of acne vulgaris, was obliged to state: "The pathogenesis of the disorder...
Weighing against all this arithmetic is the fact that U. S. wildfowling as now organized constitutes an industry which supports tens of thousands of human families. Also weighing is the fear that, were the duck season ever closed down entirely, even for one year, conservationist zeal would prevent its ever being pried open again...
...denounced in the Senate, rejected by the Government, patronized by his friends. Still searching for some consistent, intellectually adequate view of human history, he virtually retired, "wandered dreamily under the elms and apple-trees of his estate and tried to find a base in a bewildering world...