Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will perpetuates his desire for the peace and union of mankind by founding about 175 annual scholarships from the Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, several colonies, Germany and the United States. At present there are 32 students selected from the United States, four from each of eight groups of contiguous states...
...Story of Mankind (1921), Story of the Bible (1923), Van Loon's Geography (1932), Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of the great inestimables of the literary world. Critics who resent being spoon-fed from the vast Van Loon pudding are easily convinced by the Van Loon illustrations that his books belong in the nursery. Some children feel vaguely dissatisfied with Artist Van Loon's inky snarls and scratches. Between these critical...
...ages as Author Van Loon himself. He cosily assures them that the temples of ancient Greece were "as simple as a garage, and a one-car garage at that, for every temple was the home of one single Deity." Up through the centuries the author of The Story of Mankind mounts again, telling in words of one syllable whence the Etruscans presumably inherited the arch, what the Romans did with it, why the churches of the Middle Ages were made so tall, how joy went out of art with Christianity and was imported back from Moorish Spain to Provence...
...book" by Agent Ashwell. A dignified, voluble, onetime architect who came to California as a district manager for Johns-Manville Corp., lost his job in 1931, Agent Ashwell happened into an I.I.U.R.A. lecture three years ago, was instantly captivated by the idea. He set up a bureau, helped promote Mankind United, now lectures six nights a week to goggle-eyed San Franciscans, including many a onetime Townsendite. As envisioned by Author Ashwell, if each buyer of Mankind United promptly sells four copies to other buyers, the organization will end its semi-final membership drive in 14 weeks...
Aside from astronomers and geologists, who pay mankind little regard, anthropologists have perhaps the longest view of human history. For many a modern artist and thinker, anthropological researches into primitive cultures have refreshed the past, illuminated the present, enriched Man's theory of himself. This week one of the most brilliant living anthropologists, London's Bronislaw Malinowski, introduced to U. S. readers an emigre German professor's study of primitive art as "one of the first contributions to real anthropology . . . the only objective, clear and telling documentation of native opinion on Europeans...