Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intellectual" world of the 20th Century, reasons Heiden, is the first to believe in "the open sesame of technology," to see the ideal national state as "a state for mechanics." So when Hitler called for the coordination of all national activities, few feared in this icy, calculating phrase the machine-tooled mind that regarded people as the mass-tools of a chief engineer. Those who belonged to the "intellectual" age approved; those who did not were misled. "No trade-union leader called for determined resistance [because] the education of the working masses in the ideals of the economic...
...through an engineering course at Iowa State College at Ames. Soon he became more inter sted in mink than in engineering, switched to an animal husbandry course. Then he gave up college altogether: tak ing care of his mink left him little time for study. Having located an ideal U.S. mink-raising area by study of rainfall and temperature charts, he took his bride to a two-room shack on Wisconsin's Suamico River in 1934 and set up in business with 100 mink and $383. Soon he was experimenting with mutations...
...fish are spawned in fresh water, head to sea in their second spring. Grown sometimes to 15 lb., they return to spawn in their fourth winter. Ideal fishing areas are shallow stretches of slow-moving water, where the bait drifts slowly over sandy bottoms. Best fishing is in freezing weather...
...molecules from liquids or solids. Evaporation may be speeded by 1) heating, which makes molecules move faster (as in boiling water), or 2) reducing air pressure. Heating, however, may change the chemical make-up of a substance (e.g., heated food often loses vitamins, heated magnesium oxidizes). Industrially, the ideal method would be to evaporate a substance while it is frozen or relatively inactive...
Antiques. Best-liked British plays are both revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter...