Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saharan oil stocks, and every month thousands of young Frenchmen apply for jobs in the Sahara fields. French newspapers refer to the Sahara as "our California," and the man most responsible for the Sahara agrees. Says France's Minister Delegate Jacques Soustelle: "This desert should come to mean to France what the Far West meant at a certain period to the American states on the Atlantic coast...
What all this will mean to the French economy was spelled out not long ago by Jacques Soustelle. Said he: "Metropolitan France now consumes more than 20 million tons of oil a year. This was the basic factor that for years brought our trade balance into the red. When in five or six years consumption reaches the 36 million-ton level, we will be able to pump between 30 and 50 million tons out of the Sahara...
...Visionary?" says Jacques Soustelle. "The word has two meanings. You can say that a man is visionary and mean that he is a fool. But if in saying that a man is visionary you mean that he sees ahead and plans for the future-yes, then I am a visionary...
Idealism for Schiller, Atkins emphasized, did not mean the offering of a Utopia, but rather a spirit of freedom which harmoniously combined feeling and reason. Nor was there any "blind romantic idealism" in the poet's system, for Schiller felt that pure freedom existed only in the realm of dreams and that practical freedom was limited by moral...
...show is such a delight, however, that no one seems to mind. There was an unusually large number of children at last night's performance, and even they were attentive throughout. This is no mean feat...