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Word: humanizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sources on Divinity Avenue saw the measure both as an economy move and as the result of a growing feeling that "human" Geography is out of place at Harvard. The subject became a concentration field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Dooms Major In Geographical Field | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

Calling Northside 777 on a hunch of his editor, James Stewart finds a woman who has worked years scrubbing floors to free her jailed, but honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Call Northside 777 | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

...story Mr. Roberts isn't much-and isn't meant to be. It's as a human picture that it triumphs-a human picture in which frustration lives on delightful if not always convincing terms with farce. Tempers get sharper as everything else on the AK 601 gets duller. Denied the simpler masculine pleasures, guys cook up the most elaborate schoolboy pranks; the brinier the life, the earthier the lingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...plea for a return to the ways of the early Christians. Political salvation is possible, he thunders, only if based on a union of traditional religious ethics and the secular humanist tradition of the West. A way of life based on unswerving devotion to love, mercy and respect for human personality is the only vision that can save modern man from total destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Drowning Children | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Shopworn. At Fort Sam Houston, Tex., the Army advertised for sale ten surplus human skeletons, "male, adult (parts value only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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