Word: equilibriums
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...clear what Germany is fighting for. It is to avoid a repetition of the tragedy of Versailles and to build a better Europe. It is to do away once and for all with the necessity of European nations fighting each other twice in a century to establish 'European equilibrium'.... England proposes a European Commonwealth for the future. She had had ample time since the last war to establish it. Now it will be Germany's turn to look after this plan...
...judge any program by whether I think it tends to distribute power and bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...
...valuable use, for it has been estimated that in undeveloped raw materials alone, this area is--not excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium and the record of debt repudiation in the past make it unlikely if not impossible that under normal circumstances this capital would ever be put to work...
...straight-forward physical theory for the lethal effect of X-rays. An electric charge passing through a cell, said Dr. Failla, divides the molecules of protoplasm into positively and negatively charged particles. These ions then recombine to form new chemical substances. In a vain attempt to re-establish osmotic equilibrium in the cell, water from the intercellular spaces flows into the cell through the membrane, causing the cell to swell...
...silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been established...