Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just the quality he wants. After about twelve hours the furnace is tapped, the steel ladled off. The Bessemer process is three times faster than the open-hearth, and correspondingly cheaper; but since the quality of the steel in a Bessemer "heat" must be judged by fallible human eyes, it is not so uniform-hence cannot be used for engineering jobs where high uniformity is necessary...
...recent months rumors have reached steelmakers that Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., whose stockholders have fared thinly in recent years, had developed a photoelectric indicator ("robot eye") which, by judging the color and brilliance of a Bessemer heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
...Sargent thisyear found his 1,190-page handbook too small to contain his views, decided to restrict his handbook to education and publish a separate 400-page volume of general comment-Human Affairs...
...political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will be-your own notions will be nothing more than an outmoded pink liberalism...
Under the presidency of David W. Prall, professor of Philosophy, the Union in 1937-38 attacked President Conant's report recommending limitation of college enrollment as "the ploughing under of human brains." The fight against the Oath Bill and on behalf of Walsh and Sweezy was continued...