Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...find a way to give the kids a break? Take them out of durance vile and put them both to work at the airport. They'd eat it up and love it! Can we afford to toss these human chips to the four winds when the day may come when they will be needed to rekindle the everlasting American flame in the breasts of a thousand and one more kids...
...Chairman White democracy was not only legislative forms and procedures : "In every human heart are two conflicting forces, the altruistic urge and the egoistic instinct . . . the yearning to give and the desire to get. . . . [If] in any human unit, be it home or community . . . men are more kindly, decent, and reasonable than mean . . . then that human unit, large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant...
...Roosevelt distantly replied that he was poorer and wiser than he was in 1928 when he was elected Governor of New York. When Postmaster General Farley resigned (National Chairman Farley had already quit) to go to work for the New York Yankees and Coca-Cola, a hint of human regret tinged Mr. Roosevelt's reply: "I accept with real regret . . . sincere sorrow. . . . All of us . . . will miss you deeply. . . . I need not tell you that you have always my affectionate regards...
...first reading: it is itself a great work of literature. With The Flowering of New England it formed a living body of cultural tradition. Georg Brandes and Benedetto Croce had tried to do a similar critical work for European culture. But Brooks's re-creation of the human side of New England, of the lives, characters, appearance, crotchets of his heroes, and of the landscape through which they moved, is dramatically crowd ed with people and characterization, incident and humor as are only a few great novels...
...Joseph tried out his theory on dogs and rabbits, then further on humans. Last week the Lancet summarized his findings. When he soiled the peritoneum without allowing bleeding, during an operation on the colon, eleven out of twelve animals developed peritonitis. When fresh blood was injected into the cavity, only one in four became infected and adhesions were notably few. On human patients 200 cc. of blood run through a tube into the abdominal cavity at the end of the operation produced favorable recoveries...