Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gigantic octopus" he called it. "The greatest monopolistic organization that has ever been puttogether by human ingenuity. With its slimy fingers it reaches into every community and levies its tribute upon every fireside...
Typhus is one disease whose mode of transmission he discovered and whose way of prevention he invented. The germ breeds in the bodies of lice. One louse infects others. The community bite their human or animal host and into the bloody puncture slip the typhus organisms. Dr. Nicolle developed a vaccine from the blood of infected monkeys. Injected into humans it immunizes them. Its spreading use promises to wipe out typhus as a plague...
...They demanded that the French Government, their overlord, send them men to prevent their wine turning sour. The French established the Tunis Pasteur Institute (1893), where the scientists quickly learned what spoiled Tunis wine. Then they turned, as Pasteur had turned, to discovering the causes, cures and preventions of human and animal diseases...
...that former altitude, these present depths. And in a sound exposition of business expansion, Julius Klein recalls that an ancient Periclean law gave each Athenian the right to own five slaves, whereas every inhabitant of the U. S. today has at his disposal the power equivalent of 150 slaves. Human happiness lies in using the machine without worshiping it. Brilliantly, Bertrand Russell predicates the only remedy for science as not less, but more science?applied to human nature...
...conglomerate swarm padded about the galleries, grouped itself according to tastes before 381 paintings. Esthetes looked at landscapes, still life, murmured abstrusely of planes, tonality, feeling. Paintings from these categories won most of the prizes. The great philistine majority, as usual, neglected pots, petunias, pastures; it preferred pictures containing human figures...