Word: mankinde
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...purposes." The U.S., which has made no territorial claim in Antarctica and does not recognize the frequently overlapping claims of seven other countries (Britain, Australia, Chile, Argentina, France, New Zealand, Norway), proposed that the area be left open to all nations for scientific research "for the benefit of all mankind," and pointed to the discoveries already made during the International Geophysical Year...
Harvardman Bartley's stand against the religious dogmatism of President Nathan Pusey [April 14] and his band of idealists is heroic. Better one humanist steadily working to ameliorate the evils that afflict mankind than 100 men of religion insisting that each has a monoply on the truth...
...Rhyne and many advocates of peace through a world rule of law. "Every human community that is regulated by laws and customs," said the second-century-B.C. Roman jurist Gaius, "observes a system of law which in part is peculiar to itself and in part is common to mankind." The peculiarities lie in the forms of laws and their enforcement. But the commonality-on which any system of world law must be built-rests in basic values, in the hunger of mankind for justice under the law and equality before it. "Peace is the work of justice," says...
...deplorable. The Pudding seeks for "gentlemen", not in the sense of men of honor, nor in that of men of polished manners, but in that of men of large means and little brains, possessed with the singular delusion that they occupy a social position higher than the rest of mankind... a few men of ability are admitted on condition of repaying by uniform obsequiousness, the favor of associating not indeed on terms of equality, but by tolerance with persons so immeasurably their superiors...
...seat chapel and six smaller chapels. The pavilion also includes a restaurant for 2,000 and a three-story display building. Besides numerous Masses and multilingual confessors, attractions will include a 40-yd. mock-up of the catacombs, an exhibit of "the vital problems that frighten mankind" (which includes two gigantic U.S. dollar bills), and souvenirs (scarves with the papal coat of arms, a special issue of Vatican stamps, money of the Vatican State). Total cost, not counting the donated cement, glass, carpets, wood, altar, organ and two carillon systems: about...