Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
...Christianity," says Biographer White, "was for Shelley probably the greatest single despoiler of the human spirit." He liked to sign atheos (atheist) after his name in hotel registers. Other Shelley dislikes: commerce, finance, monarchy, almost any tradition, marriage. Shortly before his death, Shelley wrote Leigh Hunt: "The system of society as it exists at present must be overthrown from the foundations. . . ." Before he was tossed out of Oxford (for publishing The Necessity of Atheism), Shelley had dedicated himself to this overthrow...
...human time-sense is a function of the velocity constants of the chemical reactions in the brain. . . ." ^ "Life ... is not a superphysical entity; it is a form of electrochemical behavior...
...human race has apparently set out to sound all the depths and shoals of the cosmic environment. It is a wonderful and a fearful quest...
...folk poetry itself, the pure anonymous water from the deepest reaches of the human well, is infallible...