Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Mr. Belloc is closer to France than he is to the English. The book is accurately calculated to weaken the Anglo-American association. This may be the way to keep the peace. Or it may not. The book is an absorbing picture of America in the eyes of an acute European...
...party to office in England has given them an unusually attractive subject for dogmatic predictions. If the idea was ever held that by radical and unconstitutional policies Premier a destroying flame of conservatism it has for some months been ridiculous. But that the labor government will soon begin to weaken has been the general American opinion...
...petroleum resources of Pennsylvania amount to over 400 million barrels, though only 35 million barrels have been removed. By these recovery methods, a very high percentage of the latent oil could be salvaged. Professor Johnson is not an uncritical optimist, however; he believes we should in no way weaken the drive for conservation of these essential resources...
...first part consists of five warnings to mankind: 1) that the advanced races; of mankind are going backwards; 2) that heredity is the chief maker of men; 3) that the Golden Rule without Science will wreck the race that tries it; 4) that Medicine, Hygiene and Sanitation will weaken the human race; 5) that Morals, Education, Art and Religion will not improve the race. The second part gives the Ten Commandments of Science or the duties of man to bring about reconstruction through scientific research, eugenics, humanization of industry, preferential reproduction, etc. Excerpts: "One of the outstanding results of civilization...
...rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned and inspired defense of Socialistic ideals. But he has made the choice and they must be content with his decision. More serious in its tendencies to weaken the Labor Party is MacDonald's impervious disposition; he is inclined to demand devotion and loyalty rather than association in his camp...