Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental truth and principle which give the State its greatness. At the same time that church must not impose ridiculous unnecessary sacrifices on the great mass of the people. The fact that today the established church of the modern State is legal and economic, promising security for this life rather than for the hereafter, distinguishes us from the Middle Ages...
...experiment did not prove that "laboratory babies" were possible. Its significance lay rather in the fact that certain pathological tumors (teratomas) which contain hair, bone and even gland cells, may have developed from egg cells which received mechanical stimulation, started to become embryos. Further experimentation may even shed light on the development of common ovarian cysts...
...days when ploughing crops under was the New Deal's only way of fighting surpluses. After the Supreme Court ploughed that first AAA under in 1936, Frank Theis sold wheat in Kansas City, Mo., and the Government began fighting surpluses by stimulating distribution rather than just limiting production. Last week, Frank Theis and the U. S. Government were back together again-on the front pages of Rio de Janeiro newspapers...
...untouchable, and eating the uneatable. . . . It is all being washed up towards a madness never before seen. The heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...
...power should be carried on in a time of business contraction. Don't worry about balancing the budget until better times come, he advises, and then make the repayments to investors in government bonds. Rogers points out that what is needed in a budget policy is a long-run rather than a short-run balance, and that after all "a year is a pretty arbitrary accounting period . . . In fact . . . it might be almost as rational to demand that the balance appear each month." The author concludes by warning that if no solution to these afflictions is forthcoming that capitalism...