Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atom-jumpy as most of the rest of mankind, Dr. Chauncey G. Suits of General Electric last week jumped to a conclusion. When Dr. Suits heard that some mysterious radioactivity was affecting photographic film at an Eastman Kodak plant, he mused out loud. Eastman, he told newsmen, was probably getting a drizzle of uneasy isotopes from the atomic bombs exploded in New Mexico or Japan. He was later proved not quite right-but not quite wrong enough for comfort...
...this is the atomic age, and the bomb will play a tremendous part in deciding whether the world of the future will have peace or war. Roosevelt and Stalin with Churchill won the war; Truman and Stalin may win the peace; the atom will determine the future of mankind...
...report stressed the fact that "international cooperation of an unprecedented kind" is necessary to assure the survival of mankind...
Leprosy, the earth's most chronic disease, is so old that mankind has learned to fear it with a neurotic fear.* The world's 3,000,000 lepers are not alone in wanting to find a cure...
...thereby began one of history's notable partnerships in thought, politics and statesmanship. Masaryk's influence turned the didactic radical into a tolerant democrat and eclectic rationalist. Eduard Benes began to practice the blending "art of synthesis." In his Charles University thesis, he essayed a prophetic conclusion: mankind must find a synthesis of its ideals in order to form a working formula for progress. Democracy, in particular, must find the correct compromise between individualism and socialism...