Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entering the selling or retail merchandise fields probably have to work somewhat harder and more constantly than in other fields. Saturday afternoon, for example, a holiday in many businesses, is one of the heaviest periods in retail sales work. On the other hand, the human contacts which retail merchandising affords and the general soundness and solidarity of the retail business affords a more definite and sure career than in some other fields. The pressure is constantly being put on the members of the training squads and junior executives to prepare themselves for larger and more remunerative positions...
...answered in an important little voice, "Lilybet, the P'incess." "Lilybet's" mother, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, is herself only two removes from becoming "Queen Elizabeth"-which title is constantly and teasingly applied to her by Edward of Wales. She would be less than human if she did not sometimes wonder how much truth there is in the story that he once said he would renounce his rights upon the death of George V-which would make her nickname come true. If there is a woman in England who can remain unperturbed by the teasing...
...ministers, 200 theological students. Some of the questions: DO YOU BELIEVE that God exists? [Only on this question did all agree.] That the devil exists as an actual being? That hell exists as an actual place or location? , That Jesus was born of a virgin without a human father? That Jesus lived a life wholly blameless and without sin or wrongdoing? That after Jesus was dead and buried he actually rose from the dead, having the tomb empty? That there will be one final day of judgment for all who have lived upon earth? Answering ministers and theological students were...
...tumultuous stories as Jane, Our Stranger and Flamingo. But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes of pure intellect, and his wife Ann who reached for realms of pure spirit only to be dragged back to the slough of human...
...Lowell continued with remarks on the duty of educators, saying in closing, "The question is the attitude with which we send the graduates our and the extent to which we instil into youth respect for the greatness of human thought...