Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, and lunch, the President drove the Princess round the estate (the Earl had a cold), named all the trees and plants and flowers. At 5 o'clock, as dusk settled over the low Catskills, the five visitors, the President, his mother, Mr. Summerlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse...
Last week 74-year-old Hiram Johnson, who had no able opposition for his own fifth-term this year, reciprocated in an old-fashioned classic oration, which clearly stated his belief that a crisis greater than world revolution was Term III...
Last week the war reached out to Chicago. Since late July the Dutch freighter Prins Willem III had swung at anchor off Navy Pier, unable to sail back up the St. Lawrence for fear of capture in Canada. But by last week internment in Canada looked better to the bored, sequestered Dutch than gazing at the Chicago skyline all day. Onto the deck swung a Canadian crew, headed the Prins Willem III out across Lake Michigan...
...virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them. But when the mouse brain, containing the powerful "murine" (mouse) virus, was given to a monkey, nothing happened. And when the monkey was given a stiff dose of the original deadly virus, shortly afterward, he developed a fever...
Since cultures develop uniformly, the course of an unfinished cycle can be predicted. As early as 1911, when his great work was conceived, Spengler foresaw for Western1 culture 1) not only World War I but World War II, III. . . :) the coming Caesars, victors over Capital; 3) declining birth rates; 4) decay of art from high style to petty cult problems; 5) budgets of billions not millions; 6) suicidal crumbling of democracy, etc. He did not predict imminent collapse of Western civilization. Said solemn Prophet Spengler: "We are still many generations short of that point...