Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newbery medal was awarded to Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon for his Story of Mankind. The next year Author Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories were honored. Then Author Charles Boardman Hawes produced The Dark Frigate. In 1924, much-traveled Author Charles Joseph Finger published Tales From Silver Lands and won the prize...
...curb the idealism and individualism of the people so that they may fit into the place in the governmental plan that has been cast for them. The whole process makes for a petrifaction, a stultification, and a dead chine which can only end in the machine of mankind turning to find one man with a spark of religion and individuality to act is the savior of the race...
...Surely no one at all rational can view this impending situation calmly. War is the supreme enemy of the human race. The world is still barbaric while it exists. The next stop forward for mankind must be the outlawry...
...time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound...
Certain statements concerning the aptitude of mankind for error have long become established in that nobility of stalwart sententiousness, the cliche. There is, then, no cogent reason for reasserting the truth that even editorial writers have momentary lapses from the plane of virtue, not to say, taste...