Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Regardless of his platform, his performance and his propagandists, I still think (or, more properly, feel) that Mr. Roosevelt speaks with the voice of prophecy. . . . It seems to me that he understands the great underlying issue of our time-the fact that what mankind is struggling for, whether it knows it or not, is the establishment of an economic democracy on at least as high a level as political democracy has attained...
Died, Rev. Dr. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, 58, chemist, priest of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Holy Cross, onetime dean of Notre Dame University's College of Science; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. His researches gave mankind Lewisite (deadliest of war gases) and chloroprene (artificial rubber...
...Mankind never will know how much it owes to such men for the conquest of the woes and the lightening of the burdens of human life. "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife," with hardly a thought of material rewards for themselves, they quietly pursue their quests. Only at intervals does the world hear of them, as when they bestow some gift on their fellow-beings which makes all men their debtors. One is to be recognized at Harvard for his work with infectious diseases, another for his studies of the child mind, a third for his research...
While last week's full lunatic moon shone out of sight on the far side of the earth, 1,800 members of the American Psychiatric Association congregated in St. Louis each day to consider the madness of mankind. In kind and quantity this has increased so rapidly during late years that more than half the nation's hospital capacity is devoted to care of the mentally deranged and in many States the cost of running insane asylums is one of the largest items in the annual budget...
Said Sir Arthur: "Race antipathy and race prejudice are implanted by Nature for her own end, the improvement of mankind through racial differentiation...