Word: extention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joined the crusade. Up rose Idaho's Glen Taylor, the "singing cowboy." "I speak as a poor man," said he. "Before I came to the Senate the greatest debt I ever incurred at one time was $2,500. At the present time I am in debt to the extent of approximately...
...creed of his own. He acknowledged the eternal distinction between the things of God and the things of Caesar, and the eternal distinction between fundamental principle and practical human expedience. He admitted that he did not understand the things of God; but to the pitifully small extent that he did understand them he called them principles-and on those he could never compromise. One of those principles, however hard of application, was Freedom. Another of those principles was that the end never justifies the means. And, putting those two principles together, he could never allow himself to say that...
...matter of record, it has been stated officially that every possible consideration was given to all conceivable dangers of every step in the development and use of nuclear bombs and other chain reactions. This is true in any potentially hazardous research undertaking. Where calculated risks were taken, the extent of the worst conceivable damage that could occur was considered...
There Never Will Be. An Arkansas accountant: "There never will be a counter-weapon to eliminate the horrors and the devastation.There will be a defense to some extent, though; they'll find similar destructive devices to prevent aircraft from getting through. But we won't know if there's a defense until the next war. If one is invented it will be kept secret until there is a need for it. ... But we shouldn't share the bomb now; I mean we shouldn't share it with any nation at all. Because the next three...
...does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...