Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These have been the most terrible hours since the siege began," he went on. "Despite the terrible loss of human lives, Warsaw will be defended. We will never give in. ... German planes bombed Little Jesus [Hospital] a few moments...
...gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat, which had been summoned to rise against Naziism. This aid to an aggressor government places in jeopardy the lives of millions upon millions of human beings, including millions of workers...
...paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...
...undergraduate chooses medicine, hopping on the already overcrowded band-wagon, feeling it may carry him safely through the hectic years that lie ahead. Governments may fall and financial systems disintegrate, but not in his lifetime will human anatomy change, not in his lifetime will human disease cease. Society, no matter what form it may take, will provide livelihood for those who can cure, repair, reconstruct...
...Great is the responsibility of the American universities, great, indeed, is the challenge to American youth" to preserve "the freedom of the human mind," President Conant said. He added, however, that he did not believe that civilization's end is near...