Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard community. The funds to be raised will go to the needy students at the Universities of Athens, Peiping, Vienna, and Warsaw, and the international student rest center at Salzburg. Their plight is desperate; their need is great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does not fail. James B. Conant
...logic is simple: if there is no heaven, there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge; and if there is no judgment, then evil is good and good is evil." The Great Humanitarian. "But above all these descriptions, Our Lord tells us that he will be so much like Himself, that he would deceive even the elect-and certainly no devil we have ever seen in picture books could deceive even the elect. How will he come in this new age to win followers...
Fast & Narrow. Dr. Howard H. Aiken, director of the laboratory, does not like to hear his machines called "mechanical brains." "These humanitarian terms are unfortunate," he says severely. But he does admit that they work more or less like fast, narrow-minded brains. Like the brain, the machine accepts information, generally in the form of figures represented by small holes punched in a paper tape. It salts them away in a kind of "memory." (Dr. Aiken prefers "the relatively modest term: storage of numbers.") Then it combines them into conclusions, as human brains try and often fail to do. Unlike...
Lastly, "the humanitarian goal of (the Zionist) organization" has not, as Wald claims, "been trampled underfoot in the headlong pursuit of a political state." Palestine has become the only hope for the more existence of millions of Jews, not to mention things like the dignity...
Mention of a "third world war" flared up in the social, humanitarian and cultural affairs committee when Leo Mattes, of Yugoslavia, protested bitterly against a committee vote. Mattes had asked that the proposed international refugee organization in resetting refugees consider the wishes of neighboring countries as well as the country of reception...