Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend the night in sleep. Though Housman considers poetry "more physical than intellectual," "the majority of mankind notoriously and indisputably do not . . . possess the organ by which poetry is perceived." But he himself, while shaving in the morning, has to watch his thoughts because, "if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases...
...Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted. True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money...
Wagner: "The Jew is the plastic demon of the decline of mankind...
...changed his sand-soaked tires that he had covered the mile in 13:16 sec. (273.5 m.p.h.). A few moments later he was at the north end of the beach, where he had started. His speed for the return run was 270.6 m.p.h. The average, 272.1 m.p.h., put mankind's record for land speed within 136.7 m.p.h. of his best air speed. Sir Malcolm Campbell lit a cigaret, described his experience...
...Harmon Foundation is a philanthropic corporation established by the late William E. Harmon (real estate) in 1922, not only to aid mankind but to impress his children with their social responsibilities by making them permanent and active directors. The Foundation has built 118 playgrounds throughout the country, made 5,000 loans to college students, produced 75 reels of religious motion pictures, established awards for Honor Men in industry, Eagle Scouts, newspaper cartoonists, South Carolina farm wives. For the fifth year last week the Harmon Foundation gave a New York exhibition and distributed prizes for the work of Negro artists...