Word: existers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis. His appearance was notable for one statement. There was just no way to "guarantee" production of coal in a democracy, Lewis said. "Congress would have to give the executive such a tremendous grant of authority and build up such a power that the Republic would no longer exist...
...theory of Spengler (whom Toynbee, nevertheless, calls "a man of genius") that civilizations are tragic organisms, growing inexorably toward predetermined dooms, Toynbee advanced a dryly lucid counter-proposition: civilizations are not things-in-themselves, but simply the relations that exist between men living in a given society at a given moment of history...
Scientists connected with Brookhaven are careful to say that the laboratory will not develop new atomic explosives, but will concentrate on making nuclear physics benefit humanity. But the project will do no harm to the national war potential. Atomic secrets (if any still exist) may yet leak or be rediscovered abroad. The job of Brookhaven and other U.S.-sponsored laboratories is to develop atomic know-how so fast that the U.S. lead cannot be overtaken...
...Bank," said he, "is fundamentally sound and has an important job to do. The world cannot exist half rubble and half skyscraper. ... In making loans, it is impossible to eliminate political considerations entirely. It is the Bank's function to take calculated risks. But every possible step should be taken for the protection of its bonds. The securities of the Bank must be made prime, because in the long run its success is dependent upon the cooperation of the financial community...
...Could U.N.'s multilingual committees agree on a solution, and make it stick, where Britain had failed? If enough Arabs or enough Jews wanted their own way badly enough, there was going to be plenty of work for a U.N. police force (which does not yet exist); U.N. cops might have to quell the same kind of disturbances on refugee ships and take the same glares British cops were taking last week...