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Word: humanity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus far survived the challenges of nature by adapting to and overcoming them. Has the human race lost its self-confidence? The only progress the race has made has been through expansion and growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Birth control can't possibly be the answer to any of our problems. A society that stops breeding stops living, both intellectually and, eventually, physically. The human race cannot grow by limiting itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Since some of our friends are convinced that God wishes to be in sole control of our conception or arrival and that any artificial human interference is sinful, isn't it logical to assume that He may be equally concerned -and consider it sinful-when use is made of any human artificial means to interfere with or delay our own death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

From painstaking ten-minute to half-hour microscopic examinations of each of 19,797 exquisitely thin slivers of tissue from human lungs, medical researchers reported last week that they had found the strongest anatomical evidence that heavy cigarette smoking is a potent cause of lung cancer. At the A.M.A.'s Dallas meeting, Dr. Oscar Auerbach of East Orange, N.J. told how he and a distinguished colleague, Dr. Arthur Purdy Sout (retired professor of pathology at Columbia Uni versity's College of Physicians and Surgeons), had examined the magnified tissue slides, cell by cell. Working with them were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Cancer (Contd.) | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Renwal's Visible Man. A 16-in.-tall clear-plastic assembly kit of the human body from skin to skeleton, with veins, arteries, bones and body organs, Renwal's man can be taken apart and put together again. List price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Magic Market | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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