Word: humanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often without learning. . . . To form all these people into an organization where they might not merely secure a livelihood, but by industry and thrift, have the opportunity to accumulate a competency, such as has been done in this country, is one of the most marvelous feats ever accomplished by human society...
...Rightly understood, there is no more sensational story of human experience. Society is made up of constants and variables. The variables attract us by their contrasts and are always appearing in the headlines. But the constants always predominate, always push ahead in the march of progress...
Thus is another Utopia, soundly enough conceived, shattered by the test of reality, practice, human nature, what...
...roof trying his utmost to tear the red streamer down. With a bellow like a bull's the giant Mura-lov, onetime commander of the Moscow garrison and Trotsky's most devoted follower, elbowed his way through the crowd, scaled the side of the house like a human fly, mounted the roof, caught the offender by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the trousers, carried him to the edge of the roof, and dropped him from a safe height to the ground, where, terrified, he scampered...
...activity such as 'trouble clinics', 'personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they are in danger of surrendering to the psychoanalyst that vast field of human need where the con fession of sin and spiritual misery is met with sympathetic and intelligent treatment...