Word: illusionality
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Meanwhile, speculation and the illusion of prosperity may itself encourage an increase of consumption, giving business a genuine stimulus. And although Congress last summer rejected the idea of Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name...
Not so are the goods-whether food or cannon-which are exported to belligerents. Experience of the last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only...
Up The Hudson. The Queen connived to preserve an illusion for Diana Hopkins, 7, suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were...
*Many astronomers, including Dr. Hubble, suspect nowadays that the "Expanding Universe"' may be an illusion instead of a reality. For relatively nearby objects, however, the spectrum shift is taken as a valid measure of velocity.
"For more than 150 years [the illusion of equality] has served to delude the masses. . . . The idea that an individual as a matter of right and regardless of his qualifications should be able to participate in determining any and every question which may catch his fancy . . . seems to me to...