Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Written under the twin delusions that Americans were chiefly of Anglo-Saxon origin, and that this stock was greatly preferable to Eastern and Southern European strains, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 limits total annual immigration to 150,000, with individual nations held to a number proportional to their representation in the total 1920 United States population. However, the "Anglo-Saxons" and "Nordies" received a disproportionately large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared...
...origin of most of the culture, art, philosophy and science, both of ancient and modern times. If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity and the glory which its 300 million or 400 million people would enjoy...
About the only Jeans theory which can be explained to laymen presents a possible origin of the solar system. If another star, Jeans argued mathematically, ever passed near the sun, it may have pulled out a streamer of gas. This, cooling, may have formed the planets...
This is the Harvard whose president argues the necessity for social scientists to dissect American institutions "as fearlessly as the geologist examines the origin of rocks," who knows the merit of "pure" science and thought but decries the pointless "thrashing over old straw" which often passes for scholarship...
Rumors about Tito's origin were fantastic, but scarcely more so than the mystery enveloping him. According to various accounts...