Word: concept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Caetani lands, kept all he could and was among the first Italian proprietors to cooperate with Il Duce in Fascism's vast project of land reclamation. As an engineer, the Prince, trained in the U. S. for such work, was gripped and fascinated by the political concept of Benito Mussolini: an Italy so developed by land reclamation that for the first time in modern history she could feed herself...
...even hope that perhaps one day that world of Truth and Virtue, and absolute honesty of institutions shall be my abode. But I thought Truth (whatever we know about it) only existed in heaven. In fact, I am convinced of it, and I do object to anyone pulling this concept out of the divine realm and attempt to apply this sacred idea in defense of bankers and such, or a system of government...
...imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Instead of turning codes more and more back to industry he may well favor putting representatives of the Government and of labor on code authorities. "A middle course between the anarchy of unplanned, undisciplined industrialism and the tyranny of State control," is his concept of NRA's function?a middle course, perhaps, but far from General Johnson's idea of the middle...
...whole thesis behind this program is the very theory that man is but the pawn of the State. It is a usurpation of the primary liberties of man by government. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even the government may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the State. It is a vast casualty to liberty if it shall be continued...
...trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum life span of stars. Thus Drs. Baade & Zwicky hold it not unlikely that soon or late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world?life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect of life scorched to death by a sun having its final fling before joining the stellar ghosts in the cosmic graveyard...