Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the first crew of diggers appeared in a shrubby field near Pinopolis and began clearing land. But one impediment remained: South Carolina's condemnation law, behind which landowners in the to-be-flooded area took refuge, vowing to defend their holdings against the march of unnecessary Progress and political Pork. Last fortnight both houses of South Carolina's General Assembly put skids under this impediment by voting to the Public Service Authority a new right of eminent domain, subject to price verdicts by arbitrators. Last week Governor Maybank knocked out the last chock by signing this...
Last week a lieutenant from Randolph Field, the Army Air Corps training centre in Texas, missed the town at which he was instructed to land on a cross-country flight. He turned up with a novel excuse. Said he: his navigation was so accurate that he passed directly over the town, was so intent on scanning the terrain on both sides of his course that he never noticed...
...value of every human soul and the right of every human being to protect his own interests in so far as they do not too drastically infringe upon the interests of others, is not in the least incompatible with the aristocratic conception, provided the latter is removed from the field of privilege. A good society should produce a natural leadership of the biologically and mentally superior. The best society-and here I agree with Walt Whitman-is the one which produces the largest number of healthy, happy, cooperative, competent human beings...
...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...
...Imperial Rome was Tiberius Claudius Nero (42 B.C.-A.D. 37). Son of one of Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...