Word: decays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bound up with the decay of the economic system is the problem of technological unemployment, which has been present since the industrial revolution. So-called "normal" unemployment, says Corey, has been a necessity for capitalism, providing a reserve of labor for new undertakings, serving as a club to beat down wages which are always threatening to destroy profits. But with the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion," with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey...
...original bases. The Curie-Joliot work proved that theorists have a pretty accurate understanding of how the atom works. By-&-by an engineer may use the information to make a steam engine run more efficiently. Metallurgists may make better kinds of stainless steel. Physiologists may prevent rickets and tooth decay, treat cancer...
Though generalizations often miss the mark, most of Brooks's charge gets home on this target: "Our thinking class quickly reaches middle age, and, after a somewhat prolonged period during which it seems to be incapable of assimilating any fresh experiences, it begins to decay. The rest of our people meanwhile never even grow up. For if our old men of thought come to a standstill at middle age, our old men of action, as one sees them in offices, in the streets, in public positions, everywhere! are typically not old men at all but old boys. . . . In short...
...lamented the coming doom of civilization in the nineteenth century and was glad that he was born early enough to be able to avoid witnessing this doom. And in the same way, every decade, before and after Goethe--and before Mr. John Haynes Holmes--has had its prophets of decay. But none of the prophecies appear to have worked out. Civilization has had its ups and downs but it has never become an unrevivable corpse...
...went to Solomon in fear and trembling. Consensus of scholars is that the capital of Saba (Sheba) was Mareb, about 750 mi. from last week's putative discovery. Once a flourishing and autonomous trade centre, during the early Christian era Mareb fell to successive conquerors and its decay was hastened by the collapse of a great irrigation dam. Modern explorers have found the ruins and numerous inscriptions to identify them, but no mention of any queen. Some authorities suggest that a queen may have lived in the north of Arabia and acquired the wealth of Mareb by force...