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Word: mankind (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altruistic transformation" of social institutions is the only possible way to save mankind from destruction, Pitrim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, said last night at a Social Relations Society lecture in Emerson Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Claims 'Altruistic' Social Change Only Hope for Mankind | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

...freshly at all they had previously accepted without question. Shaw repeatedly committed that sin against society for which Socrates was condemned to death: he made the worse seem the better part. As Albert Einstein once put it, Shaw had "succeeded in gaining the love and the joyful admiration of mankind by a path which for others has led to martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Masks of Genius | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...limitless source of the earth's food and power. It is so close that its light reaches earth in only eight minutes, whereas light from the next-closest star, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, takes four years. Every day it sends earth as much energy as mankind uses in a year. It would take 340 earths strung together like beads in a necklace to girdle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Light Subject | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Health Association-its value just upped from $2,500 to $5,000-as an "exemplar par excellence of the 'wellbeing of mankind throughout the world,' public-health statesman, influential medical educator, wise counselor and friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Public-Health Statesman | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Peace With Justice. Said the Roman Catholic bishops: "Every possible means consistent with Divine law and human dignity must be employed ... to avoid the final arbitrament of nuclear warfare. It has been the hope of mankind that a means adequate to the necessity might be found in the concert of the United Nations. This is neither the time nor the place to ... pass judgment on its achievements . . . The fact remains that it offers the only present promise we have for sustained peace in our time: peace with any approximation of justice . . . Worthy of highest praise are [the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bishops on the Crisis | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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