Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House by the accumulation of several good tutors in that field, applicants for the Houses flock to that House which offers them the best tutorial instruction in their field. As soon as this academic specialization in a House has become a fact it tends to become almost self-perpetuating. New admissions to a House are made with a view to replacing the graduating students who are leaving each tutor; if twenty men in economics are leaving, twenty more economics concentrators will be admitted. Though this is not a hard and fast rule, it is one guide to admissions...
...Rathenau was assassinated after the War by antiSemitic, anti-liberal nationalists. But Rathenau's secret dream of a completely rationalized and goosestep-clicking German industry was remembered by some of his young disciples who became Nazis. Hitler's first and second Four-year plans for making Germany self-sufficient owe more to Rathenau's social thinking than any Nazi would dare to admit...
...monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...
Enter Goring. Since General Goring took control of the entire German economy in 1936, the Nazis have made some progress towards their goal of Wartime self-sufficiency in Central and Eastern Europe. Low-grade iron ores are being worked by the State-owned Hermann Goring Iron Works; by 1940 the Nazis expect that perhaps 35% of the iron consumption of Great Germany will be supplied from domestic sources. Aluminum from bauxite imported from Hungary and the Balkans is supplementing heavier metals, such as copper and nickel. Artificial rubber sufficient for 25 to 30% of the peacetime rubber requirements is being...
...Christy" has been a U. S. citizen for the past 50 years, but his broad Norwegian accent, his preferences for rye bread and prim, batwing collars, stamp him unmistakably as an old-worldling. So, perhaps, does the self-effacing devotion to music that makes St. Olaf's lusty youngsters hang on his every word and glance. Critics have often asked him how he manages to get such results with a constantly changing group of college students. Says he, grinning good-naturedly: "Character is what counts. ... If it comes to a choice between character and exceptional voice, I choose character...