Word: wwi
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...almost as much as Wall Street did last week. For one thing, the outbreak of war means that, 10 or 20 years down the road, someone will make an honest film denouncing it. ("All Quiet on the Western Front" came a dozen years after WWI ended, "Patton" 25 years after WWII, "MASH" 17 years after Korea and "Platoon" more than a decade after the last U.S. helicopter escaped Saigon.) For another, war gives members of the industrial-entertainment complex - a business designed to offer diversion from the little murders of daily life - to take the world seriously. And that...
...last two-day close on Wall Street was following the JFK assassination; the last time longer than that was the four-day "bank holiday" in panicked 1930 and another, longer stretch during WWI. At about the time Wall Street?s closing bell would normally have rung Wednesday, exchange officials announced that some trading would resume Thursday, but that the equities markets would be open as early as Friday...
...from Germany. They were speculators too, and wanted to get rich. But they also wanted to have their state defined by the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. The concept of freethinker was so specifically German, and thus it became unpopular after the Anti-German backlashes during and after WWI and WWII, when all German enthusiasms became unpopular. To survive, free thinkers became Unitarians-and then humanists. God has not made himself known to us, and thus we expect no rewards and punishments in an afterlife. In our lives, we do our best to serve our community well, behave decently...
...just another military invention that spills over into our daily lives. It was first seriously proposed before WWI as a means to prevent wasting an hour of daylight. An hour more sunlight at night produces real savings for everyone. More natural light means less electricity and decreased heating costs. The lost hour of sunlight in the morning hardly plays a role during the summer, especially because the sun rises early in the northern temperate zones. In the winter months, the savings in the afternoon are offset by the increased need for artificial morning light. This reasoning provides a clear advantage...