Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevail "only so long as the influence of a civilized minority holds sway." Mr. Martin is skeptical, not to say suspicious, of the present trend of social organization. "It is precisely because it seems to be necessary to give up so many social liberties in modern industrial society that mankind must guard its personal rights with stubborn vigilance. . . . Resort to legislation should be the very last remedy proposed for the removal of abuse. ... If you would keep your power over yourself, keep it off your neighbor...
...acknowledged to be more serious now than at any time since the black year of 1917, went into this latest, exciting phase, the American Booksellers' Association gathered in convention in New York. At their closing banquet they were entertained by a brother act featuring Dr. Charles Austin Beard ( Whither Mankind) and one Westinghouse Televox. Mr. Televox, controlled by a pitchpipe between the lips of R. H. Maxwell, Westinghouse engineer, spoke in the voice of Dr. Beard. He began, "As Dr. Beard so kindly said, I am the personification of the machine age which he defends...
...America should lead the advance guard of an international movement endorsing general disarmament. . . . The ideals which have inspired the Junior League to a steady onward march of evolution and progress are an example to the world of the dynamic power of fearlessness, of goodwill, and of faith in mankind...
...function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less than no admiration; calls their books "an assault upon the world's cultural values...
...sole Asiatic nation which has mechanized itself) women now work all night in the textile mills (a scandal against which Lancashire bitterly protests), and in India itself Mr. Gandhi has seen enough of the Machine Age and Big Business to convince him that these things must be destroyed if mankind would save its immortal soul. Yet Historian Upton Close, sympathetic though he is with Asians, acutely as he realizes the difficulty of their adjustment to mechanization, believes that upon this point St. Gandhi is butting against a stone wall which may smash him if he butts too hard...