Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graft is as old as mankind. Cervantes, suspected of falsifying his accounts, went to jail again. Three months later his innocence was established and he was released. Six years later he was jailed once more for the same reason. This time he turned his enforced leisure to good account, wrote two stories. Fourth and last time Cervantes saw the inside of a prison was for suspected complicity in a murder; again he was acquitted. Though this uncertain freedom gave Cervantes a liberal education in human nature it did not encourage him in regular habits. "All his work was in disorder...
Fancy Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures and printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come when you will turn on the facsimile receiver...
...manifold development, only a small part of which is as yet under way. We are here today to mark the establishing of that part--to lay the corner stone of a structure which will need time to build, but which must ultimately prove of consequence in the service of mankind...