Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was first offered to the general public in 1945, the U.S. Army and Public Health Service warned that the wonder insecticide had better be used cautiously. No one knew much about DDT's long-range effect on human beings or on the balance of nature...
...professional man, said Killian, "we must add [a new] ingredient-the new social mind called for by Henry Adams. The specialist must shun the view that lopsidedness is laudable; he must be politically and morally responsible; he must test his actions by their human impact...
...tried to chart a sounder course. His seamanship may be better and his course truer, but when the voyage ends he has made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...
...Lisa. "I didn't make the police." Only after Lisa came back, carrying the yellow police card and screaming at him, "Go home! Take your tanks, take your money, take the coffee and the sugar . . . and go home!" did Robert begin to understand that he had debased a human being. He decided to make it up to her by promising to bring 'her to America...
University officials yesterday announced the establishment of a Laboratory of Human Development--a project which will study the behavior of children and the part that schools can play in preparing children for happy and productive lives...