Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecturer. A. P. correspondent in Belgium at the beginning of the War, he saw the siege of Antwerp, was nearly caught by the advancing German army. Nearly caught by poverty after the War, he tricked it by writing his first popular history, Ancient Man. Other books: The Story of Mankind, The Story of the Bible...
Died. Bahiyyih Khanum, 85, daughter of Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i faith, in Haifa, Palestine. She was regarded by her sect as the world's holiest woman of all time. Baha'is believe in the oneness of mankind, internationalism, universal peace and love, equal opportunities and rights for both sexes. There are some 8,000 believers in the U. S. (TIME, March 10, 1930; July...
...Washington, as an engineer," he continued, "solved stupendous and vexatious problems for the benefit of mankind. President Hoover's mind is the mind of an engineer...
...Partly with weapons we had sold to the Turks," cried Mr. Henderson, "a holocaust was inflicted upon the flower of the British Army at Gallipoli! That is a kind of paradox, my friends, against which the conscience of mankind is in revolt...
Such strange occurrences Author Ford interlards with strange theories of his own. He argues that such happenings are evidence of powers that, like atomic energy, mankind has yet to discipline and tap. He does not take his theories too seriously, does not take most "scientific" theories seriously at all. But he does not attack them as absolute nonsense, because he can ''conceive of no theory that is more than partly nonsensical." Even he must draw a "scientific" line somewhere. As reported in the New York World, in 1908, a party of detectives detailed to investigate a series...