Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harmony, the teachers' president had other reasons for celebration. A free lance since he was fired from Yale two years ago and became an academic freedom case, Professor Davis announced to the convention that in September he would begin a new job, as head of a department of human relations in an unnamed eastern university...
Psychology Professor Knight Dunlap, of the University of California at Los Angeles, last week made a proposal* shocking to many a U. S. educator: that humanity should be told that it is sometimes a duty, for the sake of human progress, to commit crime. Children, said he also, should learn that it is sometimes necessary to defy their parents. His thesis: if nobody ever broke a bad law, mankind would eventually get into a rut, sink back into savagery...
...including man, since human beings engage in year-round sex activity...
Last week Philosopher Joad joined several other philosophers, sociologists, politicians and job-lot thinkers in proposing that somebody stop science. Though typically visionary, the Joad proposal was specific: let a board of wise men be created with powers to grant or refuse permits on inventions which affect human living...
...assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...