Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed many of his enemies in the air; but he was a poet and remorse overcame...
...Rockefeller Foundation, organized "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world," is headed by that distinguished after-dinner speaker, George Edgar Vincent, 64, who was formerly president of the University of Minnesota. Only last fortnight, another famed educator, Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago to become director of the new Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Mason is to have both administrative and research duties...
...essence of Hardy's philosophy is the apparent helplessness of mankind. It appears in the poetry, as in the prose, with a sense of human impotency. This view of life is not useful; it may even be dangerous--for it leaves one "with a sense of groping in thick darkness, with a very indefinite light in the distance, if there is any light at all." But despite this depression, Hardy's themes and his style of treatment possess that universal quality which assures him a lasting place among the immortals...
Whether it was Alabama's landslide to Senator Heflin in the early hours of the New Lecture Hall Convention that started the merciless succession of events whose end is not yet, no one can say. While one of the delegates from another state was thundering, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Rome" he never dreamed that a mighty blow was being struck for him only a few miles away. Heflin, ever the cunning strategist, covered his main point of attack by the blatancies of convention excitement. Meanwhile his benchmen were elsewhere, stabbing deep. When morning came...
...belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated mankind and which, as sure as we are meeting in this room, will recur again...