Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formulate, to clarify, to vitalize the ideals which should animate mankind-this is the incredibly heavy burden which rests, even in total war, upon the universities. If they cannot carry it, nobody else will; for nobody else can. If it cannot be carried, civilization cannot be saved. The task is stupendous...
...things which matter most are beyond the power of the grave to destroy; 2) all men are made to live for one another in a mutually sacrificing sociality; 3) servants are literally more pleasing to God than masters; 4) only a fire of self-effacement can bring happiness to mankind; 5) the task of world improvement should not be left to future generations; 6) children are the most important people in the world and the Church should educate them; 7) it is immoral to lay up riches to buy exemption from productive labor, and a Christian security must...
...Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder's brightly cockeyed account of the story of mankind, in which dinosaurs collide with bingo (TIME...
...below the spinal column (TIME, Sept. 14) last week won approval in the Journal of the A.M.A. and hit the front pages of big U.S. dailies. Wrote Journal Editor Morris Fishbein for the Chicago Times: "The young physicians who developed this method [have] attained a goal long sought by mankind-and especially desired by womankind-since the beginnings of human life...
Wrote Jefferson: "This was the object of the Declaration of Independence: Not to find out new principles or new arguments never before thought of ... but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent. ... It was intended to be an expression of the American mind...