Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PAINE, FRIEND OF MANKIND-Hesketh Pearson-Harper...
...Houston's Cold Cure," for she, like America's Bernarr Macfadden, fancied herself as a health authority. A stern course of nostrums beloved by Britons (Gee's Cough Linctus, Langdale's Cinnamon, Byard's Oil), the cure was dedicated by its inventor to suffering mankind with this benediction: "If this remedy cures you, and I hope and believe it will, please report to me, and in payment let your fee be-just saying-God bless Lady Houston...
...nation, and of the world . . . depends in no small part upon the young men. If . . . they be fostered and encouraged in the manner of right and proper living . . . we shall rear a nobler race of men, who will make better and more enlightened citizens, to the ultimate benefit of mankind...
...other engaging traits include a mild manner, great personal modesty, a disarming habit of coupling every declaration with the frank admission that "maybe I am wrong," and a 15-year-old spirit of disillusionment about the possibility of getting anything liberal done for the benefit of mankind. These traits are genuine and at the same time more or less deceptive. Gentle Mr. Norris is not above personalities in debate. Modest Mr. Norris talks as often as anyone in the Senate, and tries to have the last word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight...
...Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...