Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the presidency of Virginia's Sweet Briar College for women in 1946, she announced that she would "promote world awareness in every possible way." She planned new instruction "on the Orient, Russia, South America," a broad curriculum which would include "the intellectual experience of the whole of mankind." Sweet Briar soon learned that President Lucas was a woman deeply concerned about the world...
...mass movement of mankind has its historians and its philosophers; so did this summer's migration. A Columbia professor and a group of students went to Europe just to write a book on American students in Europe. And a Social Relations man was running a complicated poll to find out why everyone was going...
...have a feeling in common that our work will be written down in the history of mankind. It will say: the Chinese, forming one-quarter of humanity, have risen . . . We announce the establishment of the People's Republic of China . . . We must unite with all countries and peoples loving peace and freedom, first of all the Soviet Union . . . Let the reactionaries at home & abroad tremble...
...forever getting a beating from her pupil Tom Anderson; and the hundreds of other teachers who had worked for nothing during the depression. "I thought [of] these things," writes Jesse Stuart, "and I believed deep in my heart that I was a member of the greatest profession of mankind...
Absolute atheism, writes Maritain, "deprives God and mankind of some potential saints, in making their attempts at heroic freedom a failure, and turning their effort to break with the world into a total and servile subservience to the world." Conversely, saints have been the greatest revolutionaries. Maritain contends that for centuries the world's temporal progress was fostered by the saints. It was only during the last hundred-odd years, when the results of the industrial revolution were bringing mankind more & more to social thinking and social action, that the saints dropped from the lead and the atheists took...