Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last March, by act of God and the frailty of human works, 350 persons were killed when the St. Francis dam in Ventura county, Calif., burst. Last week, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Ventura, basing the value of life upon the earning power of the dead, made settlements to heirs of between $11,000 and $20,000 per victim. Some heirs, dissatisfied, were suing for as high as $100,000 per adult victim, $35,000 per child victim. A firm of Stockton lawyers was asking one-third of these sums for handling the suits...
...Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...Vienna last week Dr. Steinach claimed that he had completed many successful experiments in rejuvenating human organs by injecting a new gland extract. The juice, called "progynon," is reported taken from animal brains. Details are not yet available...
...ride in mighty panoply across the stony bluff, surrounded by acres of sculpture representing the Southern armies. From the plain below, children of unimagined generations would stare upward at these heroically chiseled warriors of ancient days. But the men who were to shape these titanic figures have been only human, vexatious, quibbling...
Mathematician, theologian, philosopher, preacher, author, trustee and president, Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce has glorified his Alma Mater. As he walks down College Street next June he may call to mind his own words, "Human progress is not a delusion...