Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very greatest of motion pictures. Such enthusiastic verdicts as 'masterpiece' and 'super-epic' are tossed about so freely that constant usage tends to destroy much of their value....but in discussing this film it is imperative to bring them out once more...
...devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting social problems." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had cried at assembled American Association for the Advancement of Science members in Boston last December...
...imperative that Congress agree with the President. The country will watch this new bill to see whether it will be added to the emergency powers of Roosevelt as is necessary if the United States is to keep itself economically independent, or whether it will cause a rift which would destroy the benefits of the great work already accomplished...
...incontrovertible that it does not need editorial elucidation; no one with the energy to look through it can fail to see the justice of the government's action. Even more damning than the actual evidence are the efforts which the air companies made to delude the public and destroy confidence in Mr. Roosevelt. It was a peculiarly underhanded trick, and is in line with the tactics used by men who, except for the leniency of the law, would be classed as common criminals; especially despicable was their use of Lindbergh, and it is by now apparent that that noble soul...
...practice of handing down decisions which are based exclusively upon forensic ability, and which at the same time imply the existence of an intrinsic Right or Wrong, not only provides intensive training in the exaggeration and suppression of facts and the distortion of logic, but also operates to destroy whatever capacity for intellectual conviction a participant may once have...