Word: institu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilized world, John Adams, who was considered conservative, rushed to Europe to assert the superiority of American institutions he had helped create. When Hitler wanted to impress the Germans he told them their victories would last 1,000 years. Adams was less cautious. He told Europe the institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands of years." In England, as Minister, he said that American study of Europe had convinced America that she could no more go back to her institutions than she could take up the worship of Thor. "The experiment...