Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after all the bishops had gone to the Northwestern-Ohio State football game...
...judge my success, and I shall not argue the question with you. I will merely say that I would rather make a try at justice among men and fail in the try than to make the most resounding commercial success out of turning the sorrows and failures of mankind into clever mockery...
...there stand the completed results of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest sculptural commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 bronze and stone statues and busts, almost all of them life size, depicting to the best of modern belief all the races of mankind. The collection, begun in 1930, was finally completed in February 1935. Last week the sculptor, capable, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York and Paris, included the story of that commission in a thick volume of-rich reminiscences...
...once a question of larger, and less political, importance; one worth mulling over in a spirit of cautions hopefulness. It is not, unfortunately, a program to be embraced ecstatically as a solution for all of mankind's ills, to expect that commerce, peace, and plenty will naturally and immediately flow from this currency agreement...
...studies over the past twenty-five years have focused largely on stone sculpture and religious works of art found in the island county Gotland in south-eastern Sweden, which archaeologists belive has been one of mankind's most active population centers since the Stone Age. At the conclusion of his lecture series, Dr. Roosval will conduct a special study group for a small number of graduate students in the fine arts...