Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor Leo P. Crespi thinks, as his letter (TIME, Aug. 5) seems to indicate, that the human animal differs from other animals, notably the donkey, because of $50,000-a-year businessmen who become $15,000-a-year college presidents, then no donkey need suffer an inferiority complex. I've met a few college presidents in my day; and all those who were, or ever could be, $50,000-a-year businessmen, you could list on the end of a carrot-the small...
Said Paris-Presse: "What human voice could speak in that titanic decor as the images flew! After the showing, the delegates returned to Luxembourg Palace, where fragile peace struggles to be born. . . ." The Paris-Matin: "We can't keep ourselves from, thinking of the Apocalypse. It is overwhelming. . . The delegates, despite their diplomatic lack of reaction, were overwhelmed...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
...announcement constitutes a tacit admission on the part of the University that it is no longer capable of providing quarters for all of its students. Every trick in the bag, including the re-classification of every room in the Houses, has been used in an effort to house the human torrent that will flood over Harvard next month...
Gamma rays are rougher. If they are "hard"' (high frequency), they slam through many feet of most materials. The human body can stand a certain amount of them without apparent damage. If the system gets too much, the blood corpuscles disintegrate...