Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opinions are fostered in college. Material is offered, debatable points tendered, and one is urged to develop his ideas. Error is no fault; stagnation is the fatality. College urges criticism, for through criticism alone are weaknesses seen. Not petty criticisms, not revolutionary criticism, but a careful selection of the fittest and best...
...Nazi idea of race purity and of the emergence of a dominant national organism is a fantastic one. It is ridiculous to suppose that nations, purged of foreign elements or not, are subject to laws or natural evolution and the survival of the fittest. The absurdity is extreme in Germany where Teutonic, Alpine, Jewish, and Slavic stocks are thoroughly mingled...
...cotton planter and a resident of the South conversant with its conditions I want to assure Lawyer Stock that the old law of "Survival of the fittest" will do more than any act of legislature to reduce cotton production. I also believe that most thinking people regard such legislative action as a reflection upon the intelligence of people engaged in the labor of raising cotton, who must be protected by law to keep from breaking their financial neck, if still intact another year...
...been and no one would know the difference." Demanding a 20% wheat acreage reduction Chairman Legge declared realistically that otherwise "this stabilization effort will have to be abandoned, the loss written off and the adjustment left to the old-time principle of the survival of the fittest...