Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letting in some new air, the breeze has gotten a bit out of hand, and some of the trusted precepts on the desk near the window have been roughed up, there is normally a net gain. This is usually so, because good-will toward the aspirations of mankind is the most frequent hall-make of CRIMSON writers, and besides, it is more fun trying to run a good sheet than a mediocre...
...invective or ridicule. The displays of learning were soon exhausted-the delegates got tired of hearing about the ancient republics. The delegates were calm, and even when they rushed articles through, their decisions were deliberate. Nor was there much speculation by them on the awful fate that would overtake mankind if they failed...
...pains in this vital work, Whitehead was christened a "mystic" by many; but in the light of today his early searching and compelling conclusions stand as heartening indications of the latent capacity of mankind to understand itself...
...each year visit Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery in Washington. Thousands of Christmas cards, crisscrossing in the mail, carry reproductions of the 15th Century masterpieces, and an infinite variety of imitations. In these ways the great religious art of the past has become gifts to mankind, reopened by each succeeding generation...
There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research on the common cold...