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Word: fittest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powder, and Milch, a cool steel machine, planned and produced. They built a carefully integrated but decentralized plant, with 1,700 factory units scattered all over Germany, most of them far from the hot French border. They established a military training course so brutally stepped up that only the fittest survive. They designed a simple series of warplanes, sensibly sticking to a few constantly modified basic types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...adds the final denunciation that "the fittest and best of the nations are sent out to be killed, and the trash stay at home to breed more trash and plan more wars." It is in answer to this situation that Professor Hooton would send both the mentally deficient and the congenitally deformed to fight the wars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Plans War to Benefit Mankind Which Would Be Fought by Misfits | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...ideas of popular music are products of the rough treatment of every-day use and of the intuitive taste common to all peoples. The process is a sort of musical "survival of the fittest." Our jazz is not different in this respect from the folk-music of other peoples, and the qualities which have made it a great popular art form will assure it a lasting place in the musical idiom...

Author: By L. C. Holvik, | Title: The Music Box | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...listen to the same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that the individual and all he has belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural law that applies to men and nations. These ideas, falling on the minds of men over the wide areas of nations build up into a mighty flood that sweeps away the hard won freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

That hatred of Jews is fundamentally hatred of monotheism is not Dr. Freud's discovery, but hats off to him for calling a spade a spade. Blood, might, survival of the fittest constitute the diet of modern paganism. Pagans living on a monotheistic diet are subject to periodical violent vomiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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