Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposals made at Harvard's conference of scholars was for a Court of Wisdom, which would interpret universal truth for mankind in its turbulent hour. The time has come, the scholars said, for the learned of the world to pool their knowledge and preserve the eternal verities. Such a proposal is stimulating, particularly now, when everyone is sifting every eternal verity to see whether it is a Republican eternal verity or a Democratic eternal verity. We would like to see such a court established, but we are familiar enough with the temper of mankind not to place too much confidence...
...course, no army, no material force of any kind to make it prevail. It has not been the ward of a great sovereign or of a munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe and the support of a community in New England which has been loyal to that tradition through all the vicisaitudes of many ages...
...researches they have been currently pursuing; the first-named section, on the other hand, which did not start until the second week of the session, took the form of a well-integrated and novel plan for consolidating the various branches of learning concerned with the study of mankind as a whole...
...steel industry] since his uncle, William T. Mossman, is the chief lobbyist in Harrisburg for the Pennsylvania steel masters. The Pennsylvania steel industry is booming today as it has never boomed since the World War (see p. 49). Governor Landon, who radiates sweetness, light and love for all mankind, is a Kansas Lorelei...
...Nevertheless he has delved so deeply into Oriental mysticism that he has been elevated to the rank of Master-the-Fifth of the Great White Lodge of the Himalayas, which he considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind about the year 254,666 B.C." He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves the corporal shell in sleep or death but an etheric body even more refined than the astral. He has composed a kind of "music" which consists of combinations of colors. He once offered...