Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the Harvard display are the most important of Swendenberg's treatises on science, mining systems, and theology. Editions are shown of his "Principia Rerum Naturalum," published in 1734; "Economy of the Animal Kingdom," 1741, his first important study of the human body; and his "Opera Philosophica at Mineralia...
...phonies, pomposities, stuffed shirts, pedants and wordmongers in general, The Tyranny of Words will to most readers make tonic good sense. But, as with most of Stuart Chase's writing, they are likely to be more impressed with his devastating diagnosis than with his cureall. Picturing present-day human communications as a telephone switchboard with all the wires crossed, Stuart Chase can only look hopefully toward a distant future when, through the rigorous application of semantics, the connection between minds will be quick and clear...
...LaGuardia issued an annotated list-of 277 books, grouped according to school grades, to be read in future by children whose misdeeds land them in the New York City Children's Court. Costing about $390, the full library contains 19 fairy stories, 81 adventure tales, 85 biographies of human and animal heroes, miscellaneous books on civics, history, hobbies, religion, etiquette. The list contains such old standbys as Alice in Wonderland, such new ones as Munro Leaf's sensational best-selling Ferdinand, expurgated versions of Mother Goose and Grimm's Fairy Tales, omits such scary items...
...from being denied this need deserves to be stressed together with need deserves to be stressed together with need for scholarships. The scholars brought to Harvard by endowed funds will undoubtedly contribute towards the advancement of human knowledge and the improvement of human society. An athletic training would develop to the fullest the mental balance which forms a prerequisite for good citizenship. Thus it is at least open to question which would comprise the greatest loss to Harvard, potential fellowship and scholarship men or a potential endowed athletic program. It is unfair for the President to cast the athletic endowment...
...result anthropologists have prophesied that the human race will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...