Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even...
...possible that there can be no definite assumption as to over population in the college. The optimistic and benevolently humanitarian view is that such is not the case and that opportunities for further education, no matter how general or wasteful, are never to be closed to any class or type of mind. The other view is more depressing and, at present, more popular with educational leaders. It would have been interesting and even informative to have secured. President Angell's attitude What he has offered is to the point in so far as the ornaments of his theme are concerned...
From that guarded statement, disapproval shaded off sharply, through humanitarian protests in liberal and bourgeois organs, to the inflammatory shrieks and ravings of radicalism...
This, however, is not all. Herr Mann wishes to picture modern life as well as life in general. Lengthy talks and debates upon contemporary social and philosophic problems of the day immediately before the war are carried on by various patients, in particular the Italian humanitarian, Ludovico Settembrini, the clever Jesuit, Naptha, and the aristocratic Pieter Peeperkorn. These philosophisings may be realistic in that they are mediocre but certainly they are mediocre but certainly they are tiresome reading...
...Prettyman] was engaged at the time on a highly commendable humanitarian purpose, but said purpose was no part of the business or affairs of the defendant company, nor was his injury caused in the performance of duties of the company." Thus, though Mr. Prettyman lost his life while employed by the General Contracting Co., and though he was engaged in the company's business when the accident happened, his widow was not entitled to a compensation award because he was not hired to perform lifesaving duties...