Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts, and the Regional Studies Program started last year depends as much on those experts in Geography as in History, Economics, or Government. The Program has been fortunate, as has the Department itself, in having the services of Mr. Ackerman, one of the country's leading experts on the human geography of the Far East. He was granted a leave of absence to head the survey of the Japanese Islands for the coming peace treaty and also organized Japan's first National Planning Board. He returned in February and has resumed his part-time instruction in the Regional Studies Program...
...field which was fast becoming a strong department under the guidance of extremely capable men. There is no question but that the expense would increase a the Department enlarged. However, the loss will be felt beyond the immediate field itself: in the specialized fields of area studies Education course. Human geography was, perhaps, a luxury when it was first introduced at the University 25 years ago. It is an absolute necessity now, as indispensable as government or history, when almost everyone has come to realize the responsibilities and burdens of world power...
...Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of church and state. It was only through a high sense of duty of her mission to promote the welfare of human society that the Church permitted itself to accept the office of teacher in the public schools. The Church desires only that justice be done and good will preserved...
...semidocumentary, The Naked City was filmed almost entirely in the streets, apartments, stores and offices of New York City. But Bellinger's New York is not a dark, tense, malignly beautiful community; evil things go on there, but by & large the city is bursting with energy, grandeur, sunlight, human variety and an eager journalistic glamor. All these qualities linger pleasantly in the mind long after the picture is over...
With a doubtful constituency at stake, Tories pulled out all the stops. Their candidate was young, chubby, glad-handing Frederic Walter Harris, a successful businessman (food products). His slogan: 'The thing to do to industry is to humanize it, not nationalize it." He kept the number of his own employees down to 700; above that figure he felt that the human touch was lost...