Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun to worry myself about the spending program," confessed Diarist Morgenthau. "I never objected to spending when the alternative would have been human suffering. . . . [But] I wanted all spending for relief and public works to be coordinated under a single head [and] I wanted a scheduled tapering...
Fruit-fly generations are short: even recessive mutations show up fairly quickly. Human mutations may not do their work for thousands of years. But, says Dr. Muller, "finally they must cause the dying out of one of the descendent individuals that carries the harmful mutation, either through his direct death ... or through his failing to reproduce-in either case his 'genetic death...
...quite invisible, and the mutational effects are so remote that there will be a strong temptation ... to disregard them. Yet these tiny effects, as regards mutation, are cumulative over an indefinite period. . . . Exposure to the radiation . . . repeated generation after generation . . . could in time succeed in destroying the human gene system beyond recovery...
...hierarchy of the great masters, the greatest have a quality beyond the temporal, which Picasso lacks, and shock tactics are not a final way to alter human vision. The crux and center of Picasso's art is, in my view, hysteria, and in this he so echoes the prevailing evil of his age that he seems to be its prophet...
Termination of "superior race theory ... particularly in our southern states," and placing "our social idealists and out students of human rights into political office, "were also advocated by the astronomer...