Word: manifeste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Theodore Roosevelt once made a crack which summed up U. S. policy in Latin America in the days of Manifest Destiny: "I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also." Last week Franklin Roosevelt, fast losing the sunburn he acquired in the Caribbean not far from the Panama Canal, may well have foreseen trouble for his Good Neighbor Policy in the tiny Republic of Panama...
...contradiction is manifest in the latter part of the editorial. Ec 41, as its catalog title informs us, is meant to be a survey course. The few weeks it devotes to business cycle theory and to international trade are intended for men who are not going to take Ec 43 and Ec 45. As well say that a course in the history of Europe (32) overlaps a history of France (47a) and a course in German history (50). Some of the material is the same. So what...
Samuel F. Hershey, Instructor in Design, summed up the new program which is slowly growing to intercollegiate proportions, by saying. "Design today is an orderly arrangement of materials for our own service to fit the circumstances, and it can manifest itself in any one the projects...
...gibbons do not. By people who have studied them closely, gibbons are usually described as shy, gentle, amiable, affectionate. Gorillas are reserved, deliberate, discreet. Chimpanzees are lively, responsive, emotionally unstable. These temperamental differences are obviously not due to variations in the natural habitat, for animals born in captivity manifest them. Moreover, at this stage, differences between individual members of the same species are noticeable...
What about the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? Stripped to their bare essentials, they constitute straight imperialism, a twentieth century version of Manifest Destiny. The argument runs like this: If Germany wins, she will dominate huge areas of the world's best markets. Our foreign trade may make up only seven per cent of our national income, but it is a vital seven per cent. With our major customers forced to deal with Germany, we will have a catastrophic economic collapse, and in the ensuing dislocation and poverty, native fascism, encouraged by Hitler's success, will rise...