Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savings will be wiped out. Even state bonds will be "devaluated". Purchasing power will simply vanish before the stroke of a pen. But this is no guarantee that inflation will be completely banished from the scene. The causes which combined to produce inflation are complex and deep-seated. Human nature being what it is, there is a presumption that speculation will continue. Russian industry is still not producing in the desired quantities. Russian farmers are still inclined to retain as much of their foodstuffs as they possibly can, rather than sell them at pre-determined prices. Many essential goods...
...Chancery Lane. Crowley added some stories of his own. He said he could make himself invisible, and claimed to have walked around a town once in a red robe and golden crown, unnoticed by anyone. In a treatise on magic he blandly remarked that "for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is best." In 1934 he sued Authoress Nina Hamnett for libel, claiming that he had been represented in her book as a practitioner of black magic; he said his magic was white...
...whole new concept of the law. Formerly, the law was treated as an isolated field of study. Dean Pound realized that this view left law out of touch with life, and hence he insisted that the law be taught in forms of its relationship with other fields of human endeavor. Thus the law must be thought of as a positive factor in the political and sociological structure of civilization...
...only human over here," said Manager Coming, when asked if there would be phones for all with the completion of the new office. "September will be one of our bus lost months with the return of Harvard and M.I.T. students from their summer vacations, and with the publication of our 1948 directory...
...mental finger on the key detail of a complicated situation or character, and a sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either of those things...