Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
...number of years during which a man has lived has nothing to do with his real age. Every human being is different from every other human being. Each one is unique in nature. We are the result of heredity, environment, diseases and psychological experiences. The passing of time will act in a different way on every...
...defense for the little Corporal's cavalry was a natural step, and the center could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French center was strengthened by the reserves. Head Coach Forbes could then wait until they engaged his center, as Napoleon waited at Austerlitz. The human pile-driver was stopped, and Harvard scored a 10 to 0 victory...
...Listen to him on the radio. The flat, even intonation goes on and on. There is no passion and no human warmth. It is Duty speaking at great length. There is more personality in the angle of Mr. Coolidge's cigar than in the whole utterance of Herbert Hoover...
...willing to bear arms is not the sole consideration. The mental attitude of the individual toward the Government and its defense, with its necessary influence on others, is a vital matter. . . . She says she has 'no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.' . . . If every citizen believed as she does and acted as she will, we would have no Constitution and no Government...