Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economically healthy nation will always reveal its equilibrium in its straight-line community pattern, like a healthy body with its temperature of 98.6°. If the graphed line sags, wrinkles severely or bulges, the nation is maladjusted. But natural bio-social forces tend always to restore straight-line health...
Thus Zipf interprets U.S. history (see chart). Though its parts were in equilibrium, the new-formed Union in 1790 was as a whole unbalanced. Economic forces imperceptibly demanded population shifts, obscured somewhat by a century of expanding frontiers. The trend toward equilibrium is clear except for the period of about a century ago. The worsening equilibriums of 1840 (see chart), 1850 and 1860 reveal the underlying struggle between the concept of federation (homogeneity) and of the sovereign parts...
...necessary to have the courage to say that Italy cannot remain forever shut up in one sea, even if that sea be the Adriatic. . . . There are other seas that may interest us. . . . Treaties are transactions which represent agreements, points of equilibrium. No treaty is eternal.-so said Mussolini, dreaming of expansion in 1923. Benito Mussolini was a man in whom the imperial dream was an obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth...
...would not like to think that you would take too seriously the statement of Conservative Leader Hanson. . . . I have read the article in question, as I have all your leading articles almost since your very first number, and there is nothing in it which need disturb one's equilibrium...
...with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels or striped silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would all be over. Conversation would again flow unchecked. It is a beautiful equilibrium of forces, but, lacking indifference, it would almost certainly topple. Before the elbow had bent many more times, the danger point would come, the hand reach forth, and--. The lesson is clear enough: our indifference is a priceless asset. It leaves us something to work on, something to challenge...