Word: mankinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur Plan in Asia" to provide at least a billion dollars a year to aid the fight against Communism. He also asked the West to wage "the contest for the minds of men" with a "continuous, widespread, and dramatic program of printed messages from free men to all mankind...
Calling on the rest of mankind "not to despair," he said that "we must make sure that the cause of Freedom is defended by all the resources of combined forethought and superior science," and pointed to the fact that "the doctrine of self-determinism was not the remedy for Europe, which needs above all things, unity and larger groupings...
Churchill opened his address by tracing the course of world history during the first half of the twentieth century. He pointed to the confidence that marked its opening years, and said that while "on the whole I remain an optimist," mankind's failure to keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved...
...statement, Dr. Compton explained that mankind craves peace and security. "The people want protection against the perils of nature...
Burke's speech exhibited the advantages which independence found for America. Extensive immigration, he said, would have been impossible under British rule, and America's technical know-how would have been retarded. This industrial efficiency, he said, "is a benefit to mankind...