Word: originated
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...socialist, the breakdown has been caused by a century of unbridled economic individualism and the cure is the traditional Marxist specific: let government take over the means of production. To Mises, the Austrian free-trade economist now exiled in the U.S., the evil that afflicts the world has one origin everywhere: too much government intervention in men's livelihoods. To Mises, Laski's way of thinking is mumbo jumbo, utterly divorced from reality. To Laski, Mises' ideas are about as useful as a stone hatchet. Soviet Heaven? Laski's book is a jeweled affair, packed with...
...then to "jazz," and finally to "swing." Mr. Copland defined ragtime as the primitive outgrowth of the Negro spiritual set to march time. "Jazz," he said, is a differently accented ragtime with more opportunity for improvisation and "swing" is a somewhat arranged and toned down jazz. He traced the origin of jazz and swing to the changing tastes of the public who, he said, tire of the previous style after a while...
...Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...
...agreement. Part of this had a familiar ring-the resentment of the outlander over the fact that his choices in life seemed to be controlled by another world a long way off. ... It is the root-this resentment and frustration -of all the radical movements that have had origin in the Middle West from the Populists down to the Coughlinites. It would serve as the mainspring of our 'National Socialism' if an economic collapse should open the way to such a calamity...