Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Acclaimed by the world as a great revolutionist of theoretical physics, his bold speculations, now become basic doctrine, will be remembered when mankind's present troubles are long forgotten...
...most proper, the most enthralling study of mankind is woman. And a woman like Catherine the Great of Russia is indeed somebody to write a book about. Last week appeared neither the first nor the last of her biographies, but one of the best. Readers whose vague knowledge of 18th Century Russia had been based on vague cinemas, had their smatterings bettered and corrected by it; those who were more interested in women than in empresses found Catherine, The Portrait of an Empress, an extraordinary woman's life well told...
...nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress again took up the matter. This time the Senate Committee...
...Pacelli, with benediction broadcast from the Vatican by the Pope. Object of the whole triduum was Peace, according to the Holy Father's letter, "to look at and pray to the Madonna to intercede with God in order that the palm of peace may be bestowed again on mankind and that a dawn of better times will smile upon them...