Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreigner is the man best qualified to judge. One wonders who the fifth person will be to be honored by a place upon Dr. Ludwig's great all American Four or Five. In the four already chosen he has picked representatives of four types of eminence. Edison has served mankind. Jane Addams has helped save it. John D. Rockefeller represents genius and one kind of power. Orville Wright personifies Homeric daring. The fifth choice will probably be one who represents per-eminently the elusive spirit of America. There will doubtless be many suggestions, but the choice might well narrow down...
...former left his entire fortune of some $5,000,000 to endow a hospital for crippled children. Now the latter has created a trust to administer his, variously estimated as high as $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, in the interest of mankind generally...
...While a fortune estimated at $50,000,000 was being devoted to the "betterment of mankind" the usual Christmas bonuses to workers on "the greatest paper on earth" failed to materialize; the owner being unable to "afford it this year...
...undoubtedly due the proctors, to whom an examination is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but only a bore; yet some more charitable form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
Bonfils purchased the Post on capital amassed from operation of the Little Louisiana Lottery, which netted him $800,000. Descendants of these dollars now rear the Foundation for the "Betterment of Mankind...