Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your quotation brings to mind his extemporaneous Faneuil Hall mass meeting speech in Boston, following the sinking of the Lusitania, when, though a feeble old man always a hater of war, he held an audience of thousands spellbound by his militant appeal for loyalty in the common cause of mankind against the common enemy, the autocracy of the imperial German Government, even though that loyalty should involve war. . . . Do you ask our loyalty to what you promised in 1932; to what you have since done; to what you say you have done; to what you now promise...
...Excellency made this loud and ringing declaration: "Now it is time for us, I believe, to try to introduce our arts and culture to other lands and thus contribute toward international good understanding, to the enrichment of world civilization, and to the promotion of the peace and happiness of mankind!" This is the 1936 keynote in the symphony of East Asia politics which Japan is trying to conduct. She sees herself as a newborn Britain of the 20th Century, so righteous and so strong that she can afford to be magnanimous in bearing the yellow man's burden. When...
...good planning is social in its purposes, economic in its consideration of man's resources, governmental in its administration, and physical in its effect on the material environment of mankind," he continued...
...perhaps 50 years hence, some one will trace the newer methods of medicine back to this meeting, perhaps to some seemingly insignificant announcement which even during these days may escape our immediate attention, but which the future history of science will reveal as profoundly influential in the destinies of mankind...
...Such a science builds the large out of the small, resurrects a greater mankind out of misery and suffering, transmutes truth into happiness, takes the patient plodding of the laboratory worker and converts it into human smiles and laugh ter." The A. A. A. S. confirmed Dr. Schwitalla's enthusiasm by electing Princeton's Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin to be president year after next. Among the reports which years hence may contribute to a "greater mankind'' were the following...