Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Federal Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, father of four Moscowitzes, glared indignantly from his bench as he heard a chemist's report on the contents of Bonomo's candy: "rodents' hairs, rodent excreta, larvae, fragments of human hair, bits of paper, bits of mouse pelts and fragments of glass." Sample pieces contained as high as 205 insect fragments, 204 mouse hairs. The Moscowitz sentence: $600 fine (legal maximum) and three years on probation for the filth purveyor...
Three years ago City College's alumni, alarmed not only by Dr. Robinson's high-handedness but also by the fact that student rebellions had given the college an undeserved reputation for being Red, decided that Frederick Robinson lacked "the human qualities" needed by a college president, asked the Board of Higher Education to do something about it. Still Tammany-controlled, the board refused to oust him. But last June, as the result of new appointments to the board by reform Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, Dr. Robinson's supporters were outnumbered. He applied for a sabbatical year...
...world much burdened with unreligious and anti-religious deeds, the Church-the myriad churches and sects which believe they follow Christ-had become immeasurably greater for what it was than for what it might attempt to do. In spite of its apparent disunity, the Church, alone among human institutions, stood for the universal brotherhood of man, the unity of the human race. To that far ideal the Church still kept its faith; on Christmas 1938 took courage once again from the oldest and dearest story it knew: "Lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till...
...competitive human world, a common platitude says that a man needs "backbone" to succeed. In the competitive animal world it is different. Scientists have other criteria than fame, money and power for measuring biological achievement. If they were polled they would probably award the gold medal of greatest biological success to the arthropods, a phylum (subkingdom) of invertebrates which includes crayfish, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, water fleas, barnacles, spiders, scorpions, ticks, insects. Reason: The phylum of arthropods (the name means "jointed legs") has the greatest number of species and individuals, occupies the widest stretches of territory and the greatest variety...
...editorials he contends that science, the cause of industrial development and economic progress, should be used to guide the human race to a wise use of the powers which it has created...