Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
...hands, hands to beg, hands to take, to steal, instead of being a civilization of souls. Machines are such hands, the atom bomb is such a hand, formed to smash the world. Why have we a bomb to destroy a city in one minute and no machine to construct a city in the same time? . . . The world cannot be saved by machines or by popular masses. It can only be saved by free...
Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting...
Last week Washington atomic insiders let a little information leak out. A really "super" bomb existed only in the minds and notebooks of atomic idealists. It was theoretically possible, but exceedingly difficult to construct. The best the bomb-fanciers could do for the present, they thought, would be to step up the destructive power of the Nagasaki-type (Model-T) bomb about one hundred times...
...student is majoring in law, he should be taught not only the laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers...