Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spots as blasted Hiroshima). The military now thinks it is all right for civilians to know about it. The instrument's chief working parts are a small chamber, a bronze wire (charged by a battery) and a fine, platinum-coated quartz fiber one-thirtieth the thickness of a human hair. When X rays or gamma rays enter the chamber, they leave a trail of ions which collect on the wire, neutralize its charge and move the quartz fiber...
...girl it was written to. He finally forces the boy to read it aloud in the girl's presence and his own. Filled with shame and guilt, the girl proceeds to run away from college; but tragedy is averted and even the professor winds up more human...
Having, in his tractarian zeal for driving home the idea of human responsibility, made the Birlings look like a pack of Victorian villains, Playwright Priestley suddenly begins to backtrack. Perhaps, he suggests, the young girl-whom each Birling had known by a different name-was really a great many different girls. Or perhaps the Birlings' visitor (Thomas Mitchell), who certainly didn't act like a police inspector, wasn't one. Perhaps there had never even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing...
...time spent in settlement houses can hardly lie in sentimental memories. The enduring value will consist in that measure of social perspective--of understanding the underdog--that must accompany intellectual preparations for democratic living. It is during College, declares James Ford '05, former associate professor of Sociology, that "broad human contacts" must enter a man's development. "Postponement until graduation," he wrote in 1940, "is unsafe, for sympathy so long held in check may become atrophied. A man's character is the sum of his habitual responses and each year it becomes more difficult to change...
...that in this era, when civil liberties seem gradually to be evaporating, such a strong stand should be taken by such a highly placed committee. If written into law, the committee's proposal would certainly live up to President Truman's boast that it represents "an American charter of human freedom in our time." The "if," however, is a big one. Several states, notably New York with its Ives-Quinn Fair Employment Practices Act, have already taken steps along the lines the committee indicates. And the Republican Party stands pledged to bring anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation before...