Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purred he at a dinner given for appeasing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax by London's ultra-Tory 1900 Club: Lord Halifax "is an Englishman, a fox hunter and a friend." For the Government's present policies he now wanted nothing so much as "a united Party, a united Nation and a united Empire." He even did a little appeasing himself. "Not a single element representative of the British nation," said he, "would support for a moment designs against the peace and safety of the Reich and its legitimate prospects of growth and expansion...
...Normally present in veins is a white chemical called indigo, which unites with the oxygen in fresh blood and turns blue.* Usually indigo flows with the blood stream to various organs, surrenders its oxygen and turns white again. But when fresh blood reaches tissues bloated with cyanogen, the indigo gets stalled and cannot give up its oxygen. Between the cyanogen and the indigo blue cells are unable to receive any nourishment, and thus, Drs. Davis and Schmitz suggested, the process of tumor development begins. How this vicious circle could be broken they did not venture...
...biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called witticisms. His present contemporaries call them cracks...
...education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...present world crisis is not due to bad heredity, nor to inexorable nature, nor to the Devil, but to bad education in cultivating habits of fear, intolerance and hate of alien individuals and races, of foreign religions, nations and ideologies. The peace and progress of mankind depend on the acquiring of habits that make for peace and progress...