Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constant sources of wonder about the 1941 crew is the presence of a slightly-built sophomore in the vital number seven position. It is his duty to pick up the beat from the stroke and pass it down through the starboard side of the boat, and the man to whom this job falls this year is Dave Challinor, a St. Paul's product, as the majority of sweep-swingers seem...
...Deal, can deny that in terms of economic, social, political, ideological changes from traditional capitalism, the New Deal moves in the same direction as Stalinism and Naziism. The New Deal is a phase of the transition process from capitalism to managerial society." Readers of The Managerial Revolution may wonder whether Author Burnham does not carry neutrality too far-not once in his brilliant exposition does he make a slip, write the word fascist instead of manager...
...remainder of the world's unrest, however, Williams has a sweeping cure-all; he proposes that the United States participate in a "wholesale attack" on Russia to stamp out Communism. He speaks of the Horst Wessel song as "born of the spirit of National rebirth." It is no wonder that his Fascist host in Italy could say as they met, "We think the same thoughts." All in all, Major Williams, for all the potentialities of his subjects, has here contributed nothing more than a rather muddled-up combination of "Sky Devils" and the "Voelkischer Beobachter...
...Clark University produced fatherless rabbits by removing ova from virgin females, fertilizing the ova with a salt solution, replanting the fertilized eggs in other females to gestate (TIME, April 6, 1936). Last week Dr. Keith Roberts Porter of the Rockefeller Institute announced that he had produced a greater wonder: motherless tadpoles. He removed the nucleus from a frog's egg at the moment of fertilization, but before it could unite with the nucleus of the male sperm. This made the mother's contribution apparently a mere anonymous drop of protoplasm with no inheritable characteristics, while the sperm alone...
Then Shall the Dust Return is Green's attempt to clarify the shape and meaning of such a sentence. Its theme is transmigration, or, from another standpoint, human destiny. It is a strange, scrupulous, uneasy piece of work; small wonder that he was troubled in the making...