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...China . . . is now going through a kind of educational revolution. . . . It is this process that has made China today no longer a nation of inert masses, but a nation of individuals . . . willing to fight and die for a future of freedom. . . . This kind of work, in which our American missionaries have been so loyal and conscientious, is a fine example of what I mean by leadership...
Liberal democracy became inert and the masses apathetic (except to benefits received from the state) largely because the little man saw or sensed that monopolistic forces of production had obtained by influence a whip hand over the state and over himself, no matter how he voted...
...life of Brahma runs roughly to 4,320,000,000 earthly years. Siva, as Lord of the Dance, is sometimes represented as both masculine and feminine (see cut) and incarnates the pulse of this cosmic life. "In the night of Brahma," says an Indian scholar, "Nature is inert, and cannot dance till Siva wills it: He rises from his rapture, and dancing sends through inert matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and lo! matter also dances, appearing as a glory round about...
...Marshal [Petain] believes that Bolshevism is the greatest enemy of all, and therefore earnestly desires a German victory. . . . Washington leads the alliance of Jewish capitalists and Soviet Communists." This must have made curious listening for the U.S. State Department, which still sought to avoid giving Vichy " excuses" for falling inert into Hitler's arms...
...vegetables are first cooked, cooled, pulped (fruits are pulped raw), then sprayed in a 3/1,000-in. film on revolving drums, where heat drives off 96% of their water in ten to 20 seconds. Steam rising rapidly from the food prevents oxidation, as when apples turn brown. Vacuums (or inert gases such as carbon dioxide) are sometimes used to keep air away. Tomatoes come off the drum like an endless sheet of red crepe paper, crumble into microscopic flakes which will store well for at least three years. Best products: tomatoes, potatoes, apples, bananas, peaches, peas, squash, pumpkin...