Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop there would be to accept hopelessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the disappearance of the great artistic, scientific and cultural achievements, and probably condemning mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery toward decency, justice and right...
...have done so. Century gives us WORLD--Mankind, or the public generally (as, the whole world knows it); also (as, the world worships success). Webster (Mr. Fox's authority) says, for Collective noun. Gram. A noun naming a collection or aggregate of individuals by a singular form (assembly, army, jury). When the designated collection is thought of as a whole, the noun takes a singular verb. (Mr. Fox said: "the world, by and large."). It strikes me that Mr. Fox has confounded the editorial ""we' with his many other activities and now regards himself as a collective noun, but even...
Today, most member and alumni are realistic about the clubs. Watson speaks for the group: "Social clubs are as old as mankind. There is only a terribly small percentage--one or two percent--who want to get into a club and don't. The club system doesn't hurt the College at all. We rather encourage them," Watson concludes...
Hollywood TVmen are inclined to look askance at Director Albert McCleery when he says, with deep conviction: "Television is only for those who believe in it like a religion . . . It is the dream of mankind, the magic box that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time and the River...
...authors: "The use of fuels extracted in liquid and gaseous form from the earth's crust will probably . . . approach its completion by the end of this century. The era of coal, which began 150 years earlier, is likely to continue longer and leave a deeper impact on mankind...