Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patents had not been infringed, that they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel on his phonograph...
Then Dr. Johnson said, "Sir, a desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched (!) will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge." James LeB. Boyle...
...unaware of the occasion, but it marked the final completion of the largest sculptural commission ever given a woman, possibly the largest commission ever completed by one sculptor anywhere: 101 life-size statues and busts in bronze, depicting, to the best of present anthropological belief, all the races of mankind. They were the work of able, grey-haired Malvina Hoffman of New York (TIME, Dec. 24 et ante). Aided by her husband, and by a series of bequests from rich Chicagoans, Sculptress Hoffman had spent six years on her job, circumnavigated the globe, coaxed Igorot headhunters out of trees with...
...Thus to mankind who always love a doer of great deeds. Franklin Roosevelt showed himself in the figure of a Hercules striving to perform immense but modern labors, of a hero who in the U. S. tradition does all his labors on a neighborly basis. He himself expressed as nearly as it is likely to be expressed, the result of this attitude, the reason for the vote of Nov. 6 when he declared...
...Pittsburgh last week during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...