Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German genius for science and organization, the English genius for government and commerce, the French genius for living and understanding of life-they must not go down here as well as on the other side. Here in America they can be blended to form the greatest genius...
Last week a new, intangible power leaped to take first place in Europe's power politics. It was invisible. It had no colonies, but it exerted more influence than the greatest Empire; it had no ambassadors, no foreign ministers, no consulates, but it spoke more sternly than the firmest diplomat. Hourly for two weeks it grew stronger, until it overshadowed the tangible world of money and man, fleets and maps; hourly its influence spread, reaching into the minds of Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued...
...would be the last--at least among the last--to suggest a policy of loafing, of laissez faire. The Freshman year is without any doubt the hardest of the four, when measured against the experience of the students involved. There will be work, and plenty of it; but the greatest danger is not the work, but the worry arising from it. More Freshmen fail because of fear than because of inability or laziness. That is a categorical statement, but true. And the remedy for fear is the knowledge that for every confused Freshman, 999 others are in the same boat...
...atmosphere of sweet reason will probably have the greatest effect in the propaganda of World...
...Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters, and Princeton's Walter W. Stewart, to advise him how to spend for preparedness in the U. S.'s greatest crisis...