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Word: human (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME herewith winds up its experiment as a job broker. The following columns of job-wanted letters were chosen for their human interest from among the hundreds TIME has received. Let prospective employers remember that TIME, not equipped as an employment agency, can make no guarantee of any applicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Democracy, to be lasting, must serve human needs; therefore, the Student Union thoroughly supports the President's aims in expanding the Social Security program. Relieving economic and social distress is the surest way to provent any unrest that might endanger our traditional American form of government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.S.U. Head Supports Social Security, Pan-American Plan | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sorties and Surfaces | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Properly, such human documents should be reviewed by a psychiatrist. No one else could satisfy the reader's main curiosity, namely, what motives of exhibitionism, just grievance or resentment against a male-dominated world prompt the writings of such a book. Madeleine Boyd does a thorough job in messing up the portrait of the elegant husband. But she herself does not come through looking as though she were dressed for church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Resistant Wife | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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