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Word: humanity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think there is a fine human touch in that act, and nothing has brought the Throne nearer to the troubles of the poor than this unprecedented act by perhaps the most popular man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...convenience with which so much of human knowledge is presented by merely "giving a course" has too frequently blinded educational authorities to the fact that the implications of a subject fully compare in importance with the appealing neatness which it presents when served up by one instructor and a set reading list. Only recently has the realizations that the minds of college students were becoming mere collections of pigeon-holed information, notable as much for the wide open spaces between as for the remarkable development of isolated subdivisions, forced educators towards efforts at integration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIGN OF THE TIMES | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

Like other human beings, Senators are more interested in themselves than in anything else. Thus debate on great public affairs was delayed during most of two days last week while Senators argued as to whether they could keep a secret. For, early in the week, some Senator had let out a great Senatorial secret. So far out had the secret got, that it was published in all newspapers served by the United Press. The press hero was United Pressman Paul Mallon, who trained in the Notre Dame journalistic tradition, would never reveal a secret he was not entitled to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Secret Case of Mr. West | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...animal's appetite usually increases with the time it has gone without food. But there seems to be an increasing number of human animals who do not develop an appetite even when undernourished. Professor Anton Julius Carlson, physiologist of the University of Chicago, has found out this animal anomaly and stated so to Chicago dietitians last week. It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whence Hunger | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...with him. It is high time to declare before all the world that Benito does not exist any more. Today Mussolini must be known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right to speak of him in the ordinary manner that one refers to common human beings. He is above all. Even his title is not to be taken in vain. It should only be pro nounced with awe and reverence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Highest Duce | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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