Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Businessmen know more about their own business than Government officials." The Administration had faith in "our American system," and in capitalism's strength and good. Sawyer-who writes his own excellent speeches-could see capitalism whistling along a clear track towards better & better times, until it reached that distant, happy horizon where (he quoted H. G. Wells) men "shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars...
...dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
Well, anyway, thanks for your excellent reporting of the preliminary scene-setting. Even in this distant outpost, it's interesting to know what...
...clear: "We want to be able to practice medicine in such a way that fewer & fewer people will go to Omaha or the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. I want everyone in the community to have the advantages now limited to those who have the money to go to some distant clinic...
Sank Center still persisted in believing--distant tremors of Big Bertha's hits had only shaken it mildly. Then depression came--depression being a state of mind in which man no longer feels sure of himself or sure that what he's doing he's doing right. Another cataclysm followed hard upon. It seems that the tribal ways of thinking that the man of 1900 had blithely ignored had a resurgence in the twenties and thirties; any illusions hovering protectedly by were finally burned in the crematoriums or died with the Kamikaze pilots. The vencer of civilization had not just...