Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unsatisfactory means of travel." Further on: "The airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements do not represent my views and I doubt that they can be substantiated or inferred from the book [Human Factors in Air Transport Design] unless statements have been taken out of context or distorted by the reviewer's own interpretation...
...seems to say on every page . . . But this democracy can only stand fast by the grace of freedom, the safeguard for world peace. Therefore, TIME continually illuminates (as does the majority of the outstanding American press) the inroads being made by Communism on this human right. TIME's tone toward Soviet Russia and her sphere of influence is now ironic, now reserved, now protesting, but not well wishing. Just as critical a stand is taken against the remaining utterances of fascism in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Germany and America (the Ku Klux Klan, etc.). TIME stands for religious freedom...
...March India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru said: "Strong winds are blowing all over Asia. Let us not be afraid of them but rather welcome them, for only with them can we build the new Asia of our dreams." Last week, in the lands where more than half the human race lives, the winds bore the taint of death...
...celibacy. Men & women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To skeptics who wondered what would become of the human race if everybody were a Shaker, a Shaker replied that he failed to see how "the bringing to an end of this wicked world would be a great wrong. Most nominal Christians believe it will come to an end in a much less merciful way." Other Shaker practices: public confession...
Next day the union tried a novel picketing technique. Like many banks, the Brooklyn Trust's doors are adorned by brass handrails. Three women pickets-not bank employees-handcuffed themselves together and linked themselves as a human chain to the door rails, thus blocking the entrance. It took a patrolman with a hacksaw to cut the girls loose. At week's end, the bank said some 50 out of 800 employees were on strike and banking was going on as usual...