Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposition to the bill from powerful industry groups may again be successful in strangling this housing hope. The "complete callousness to human values and needs" which is involved in this opposition (in the words of the bill's co-sponsor, conservative Senator Ellender) must be answered now and unequivocally by the actions of the people in behalf of this indispensable housing measure...
Here it is in black and white . . . free enterprise is more important than human rights! keep up the good work! You boys are running true to from. Perhaps someday you can be in charge of a concentration camp under the New Order! G. Maran A. Young...
...Cliffhangers. A Study of History is dominated by an image of genius. The view is of the chasm of precipitous time. On its sheer rock walls, as the eye of the spectator adjusts itself to the somber light of human history, are seen the bodies of climbers. Some, prone and inert, lie on the ledges to which they have hurtled to death. Some dangle, arrested, over the void as they cling by their fingernails to cliffs too steep for their exhausted strength to scale. Above these, a few still strain upward in a convulsive effort to attain a height hidden...
These agonists are the personifications of the human societies we call civilizations, in their upward impulse from the pit of primitive times. Downward, beyond the extreme range of vision, plunges a depth measured by 300,000 unenlightened years -the time required for the lowest climber to reach, from primitive to civilized man, the lowest visible ledge. The others have been climbing, at one stage or another, for the 6,000 years of discernible history...
...recast for republication on the morrow of the ending of the second of these two world wars within one lifetime by the invention and employment of a bomb in which a newly contrived release of atomic energy has been directed by man to the destruction of human life and works on an unprecedented scale...