Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close scrutiny of Russian literature reveals an innate comprehension of the Christian faith, a strong religious tendency and an earnest seeking after the solution of the human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
...your May 19 issue you say: "Eugene DuBois . . . got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911. . . . He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first ... to use the calorimeter . . . on human subjects...
...Dean Hanford's view according to his 1942 report, the object of a liberal arts education is to "furnish students with an idea of the accumulated culture and experience of the human race, show them the continuity of the present with the past, and provide them with some understanding of the complicated world in which they live...
...religion which makes every man his brother's keeper. In the process of conquest of a land of milk and honey the mores and working rules of society were those that gave success to the man who could best look after himself. But the social conscience, the human sympathy, Christian spirit, or whatever you choose to call it, has always been present, and in the last few decades has become an authoritative voice, urging the responsibility of all for all. Things like social security and protection for laborers are still in the experimental stage, but their very existence is proof...
...machines have created the highest standard of living the world has over known, and when the new discoveries whose possibilities are yet unexplored offer a future so amazing and wonderful that even the imagination hesitates to reach for it, these gentlemen serve as a reminder that the social sciences, human and international relations, are lagging far, far behind the advance of physical science. However, too much pessimism, like too much optimism, destroys the energy and vision that will be required to make the future more than a magnified image of the past. President Conant's "tough minded idealists" embody precisely...