Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sunny days in June are the signal throughout the American educational world for white-flannels, caps and gowns, and a torrential flood of altruistic oratory poured out over the listening ears of eager youth. Unfortunately much of this baccalaureate wisdom has to do with the challenge of youth--how mankind can confidently expect that all the ills that flesh is heir to will melt away as soon as flaming youth has seized the helm--and is soon forgotten. But it is nonetheless true that the seven hundred odd Harvard men who take their bachelors degrees on Thursday have an unparalled...
...will feel, in all likelihood, a wave of resentment against John Lewis and his group. When a country topples slowly into economic chaos no one thinks to improve his condition by refusing to work. Work and the chance to earn an honest living appear as the greatest benefits to mankind and woe to him who willfully throws up this Godsend to baggle for more money or shorter hours...
...believe that Fascism is wrong. I believe that the ideals of the Loyalists are of a type which is better for the welfare of mankind. But there is better for the welfare of mankind. But there vard ambulance...
...great ambition of the elder Rockefeller, to reach the age of one hundred, was denied him, Two scant years separated him from this goal, but other goals he has long since reached. His industrial leadership, which produced a service to aid all mankind, has already earned him his place in the history of American life...
...probated. Chief request was that the executors find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical...