Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME's editors work in Manhattan, not Chicago. Franklin D. Roosevelt is not, however, kept in Washington. He made a two-minute platform speech at Thermopolis last summer which Thermopolites will never forget (TIME, Oct. 25). Goal of extremely civic-minded Thermopolis is to organize a foundation similar to Warm Springs...
...although the U. S. rejected the League of Nations, it successively sponsored limitation of naval armaments, the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, and finally this year's pacifistic Neutrality Act. As the rest of the world appeared progressively to forget the horrors of war, the U. S. appeared progressively to forget all horrors save those of being itself involved in war. In this mood the U. S. may run the risk of taking an action so detrimental to its own interests as to produce later an equally strong reaction in the opposite direction, but it is in a salutary mood...
...darker, richer and taller than the average, and may show a luxuriant cover of plants which are rare elsewhere. On Kodiak Island the sites were covered with stinging nettles and wild parsnip; over burial sites elderberries were common. One site at Uyak Ray was covered every year with handsome forget-me-nots, the only ones found in the region. Monkshood and fireweed were other prominent indicators of sites...
China Cannot Forget Her Past...
...Chinese patriotism. It is too late. Every new railroad, every Japanese sentry, every step in the inevitable industrialization of China will tend to increase it. A people who until eighty years ago regarded themselves, not without justification, as the center of the civilized world, are not likely to forget their past. Remembering it, they are not likely to acquiesce in the domination of invaders who, in order to maintain their power, must seek to reverse the current of China's modern intellectual development. Friction will result, for a long time to come...