Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses...
...What pleased me most was when Mike exclaimed: 'Gee, Miss Brown, you're not a bit like a teacher; you're so human.' . . . Are we wrong, I wonder, offering Art Appreciation and Workshop along with Arithmetic? . . . Yesterday I had a letter from Ned Thompson thanking me for persuading him to go to Yale. . . . Before I came to high school, I taught in the grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...
...Human evolution, as the course is described in the directory, offers and excellent opportunity to make use of the great mass of evidence included in such courses as Zoology 1, Paleontology 1 and Geology, and apply it to a widely-discussed theory, a theory with which all should be acquainted; namely the theory of organic evolution...
...chief criticism of the attitude of operators in American industry is that concurrent with the willingness to discard all but the latest machinery there is an equal readiness to cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative...