Word: inhumane
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...churches condemn the long day as inhuman and "contrary to Christianity." The judge upholds it as human enough and necessary to the industry...
...periodic rediscovery of the Treasure Room at Widener reveals penmanship so regular as to be almost inhuman, on yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during...
...twelve-hour shift in industry will not stay out of the news. Every week some new organization or group of investigators declares the twelve-hour day dangerous, inhuman, and unnecessary, and at least every other week Judge Gary or one of his technical experts denies the charge. The history of the movement against the twelve-hour shift shows that criticism of industries using the long work day is becoming more and more conservative and respectable. At first only a few radicals and professional muckrakers protested. Then the American Federation of Labor began a series of futile efforts to organize...
...deep sea. Choosing the sea, its members can cast off for America with the cries of three million starving ringing in their ears. Or they can remain to energize a nation which is financially fattening itself by exporting the life blood of its people. Either alternative is inhuman...
...Eruditi professores" are in large measure what their students make them. These men who teach us must be pedantic pedagogues, they always have been and will continue so. The child's tutor was so inhuman as to call him from his play to books; and the child persisting later finds his professor inhuman. This notion is the school-boy's heritage and is so strong that when an attempt is made to popularize a course, when the professor tries to escape the mould the student fastens upon him, he is criticized as sugar-coating a pill which is preferred bitter...