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Word: humanity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoughts that are uppermost in the minds of the public are not whether this country shall sell arms to Mexico or enter the World Court. Instead, filled with the spirit of human kinship, they prefer to read the accounts of astute newspaper men who have bribed the White House cook to discover if the President prefers two or three minute eggs. It is their desire to know if the Hoovers intend to keep dogs or cats, not whether there are going to be any further developments in the disarmament situation. The great question is, will President Hoover look well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

...Eaton quoted Herbert Hoover ("The surer forces of human advancement") ; Scott ("Now is the stately column broke"); Holmes ("Build thee more stately mansions"). He discussed the "mystery and majesty of the grave" and "Death, the universal leveler." In conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fallen Comrades | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Virgin Birth | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun. . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Adler has been engaged for a number of years in an extensive study of human motivations and reactions, and has been an important factor in the development of the theory of inferiority and superiority complexes. He is the author of many books on psychological subjects

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adler Lectures in Social Logic | 3/1/1929 | See Source »

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