Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, described as a $35,000,000 exhibit-destined at Fair's end to become an airplane hangar-proved that the Exposition's officials were wrong about human nature. For six months the art gallery (admission 25?-children 10?) never grossed so much as the "Dnude Ranch" (same price, no children admitted...
...Zoologist Gladwyn Kingsley Noble of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, fish are not gawping, cold-eyed nonentities, but personalities as ambitious and sociable as human beings...
...most decisive battles in history. Modern Nazi bombing planes would have strafed it mercilessly. If they could have wrecked its essential services by perhaps a fortnight of intensive bombing-wrecked its communications, its power supply, its waterworks and sanitary facilities until plague stalked the streets and 10,000,000 human beings were thrown into horror-stricken disorder-the British Government might have been forced to make peace even at the cost of surrendering the proud British fleet...
...There is one thing our peoples-yours and mine-have in common: freedom is the air we breathe, freedom is in our blood and bones: the independence of the human spirit. But we are so used to it that if we ever think of it at all, we think it has dropped into our laps like manna from the skies, and unless we go a little beneath the surface in our questioning, we may feel that we enjoy this freedom because we are better than other people and therefore more worthy of it. Indeed we may give an impression...
Besides melanin and both hemoglobins, said the scientists, a yellow pigment, carotene, is found in the upper layers of all human skin. Carotene, a component of sweet potatoes, corn, butter, carrots and milk, is responsible for the yellowish palms, soles and eyelids of white persons. But although a white person may acquire a pale yellow tinge all over by eating enormous amounts of carotene, carotene is not what makes Orientals yellow. Normal persons of all races have roughly the same amounts of carotene...