Word: exalts
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...Exalt Women!" Fifty thousand German women and girls marshaled by hard-bosomed Gertrude Scholtzklink, No. 1 female Nazi, hailed Herr Hitler with bursts of wild, ecstatic cheering which kept up for the whole 45 minutes that he addressed them in his happiest mood...
...Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while eating lunch, but I could not let anybody exalt southey's poetry over Byron's and I contradicted every assertion that Wendell made. For half an hour the battle was waged, and Wendell told someone as he left the Club that he had not had such an enjoyable conversation for months. But Harvard was not mentioned...
...Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less to pass judgment on the relative merits and virtues of those two sorts of thinking...
That to smash the small farmer and exalt the collective farm was good policy is J. Stalin's great claim. He holds the entire situation, including the statistics, in his dictatorial hands. Last week Premier Molotov claimed that this year only 8% of Russia's grain came from small farmers who supplied 86% in 1929. In other words J. Stalin & Co. now claim to get 92% of their grain from collectives?the greatest agricultural revolution in all history...
...Mussolini and King Emmanuel will be printed in special type in the write-up text as well as the headlines, and what is more significant, the names of all lesser men will be rigorously, and perhaps conspicuously, omitted. The effect of these two rules naturally will be to exalt the Leader even more; and in consequence it may heighten the belief of the populace that when he passes, there will be none to replace him and things will go rapidly to pot. While that idea if accepted would be convenient for Mussolini, no doubt, it seems a hazardous thing...