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...such "dying metaphors" as toe the line, ride roughshod over, play into the hands of, stand shoulder to shoulder with, such "verbal false limbs" as make contact with, play a leading role in, serve the purpose of, and such "pretentious diction" as phenomenon, constitute, epochmaking, unforgettable, ancien régime, status quo. And he would clearly define or do without such "meaningless words" as realistic, sentimental, fascism, democracy, progressive, reactionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Swindles & Perversions | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...revolution of nihilism, which Rauschning previously treated as a German manifestation, he now calls the last tremor of the 500-year-long revolt of the masses. Formerly the ancien régime, the old order, kept the masses in check. But skeptical humanism has sapped the faith of the masses in the old order while it sapped the faith of the old order in itself. Hitler, himself a man of the masses, had the political genius to perceive that the revolution is everywhere because the masses are everywhere. He did not make the revolution, he used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Planning and Terror | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...average German, whatever his other opinions of the von Schleicher-Papen régime, was behind them 100% in their determination to put an end to political assassination. By linking himself definitely with the condemned, Handsome Adolf lost enormous influence in the Reich. His second message was no more tactful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Brown Trout & Bitterness | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Better Peas, Pigs, People | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...opinion Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington resigned last week in protest against the action of the crown, resumed his scholarly researches as president of the Australian Modern Languages Association. Friends of Mr. Justice Piddington recalled that he was not appointed to the Industrial Court during the Lang régime but previously. They prophesied that his stand will enable ex-Premier Lang to stump New South Wales in the coming election on the issue of Royal meddling in the affairs of a sovereign Australian state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Piddington's Protest | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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