Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robot moves with human-like movements, talks distinctly and is built in the semblance of a six-foot man. The most remarkable thing about this automaton, is his ability to answer any question within reason. Captain Richards explained that each question had a key number, such as 74, the sound waves of the seven and four combined making a certain rate of vibration on a wire inside the man, which vibrations cause him to give the correct answer...
...comes from a mind morally diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part of me. But all of me. I would rather-far rather-look at a Zig- strange as it may seem, than at the Holy...
...solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well...
Yale's President James Rowland Angell announced last week that by October. 1930, Yale would have a new $1,500,000 building to house an "Institute of Human Relations." Taking all knowledge for its province, this institute will seek to correlate the branches of learning, to produce a graduate super-informed, trained and inspired to analyze and minister to individuals, to social groups...
...Institute intends no reorganization of the University's present departments. Instead, each department will contribute to the Institute's study of all factors of human behavior and relations. Biologists, psychologists, economists, sociologists will join in the study of applied sciences like law, medicine, psychiatry. The Institute will be directed by the deans of the Graduate, Medical, and Law Schools, one social scientist, one natural scientist...