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... seems - in the Ford motor car assembly line , then deemed praiseworthy because the ordinary workman was paid as much as five dollars a day ! Such satire can be effective only if there is a contrast between the actual world and a norm of ...
... seems - in the Ford motor car assembly line , then deemed praiseworthy because the ordinary workman was paid as much as five dollars a day ! Such satire can be effective only if there is a contrast between the actual world and a norm of ...
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... seems like a quiet phrase : but is not its quietness ominous ? Would it not have been more honest to say " do away ... seem to these leaders that they already possess in their own eyes the right to establish personality types , on their ...
... seems like a quiet phrase : but is not its quietness ominous ? Would it not have been more honest to say " do away ... seem to these leaders that they already possess in their own eyes the right to establish personality types , on their ...
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... seems that a new kind of culture could be built up that would contain the new technology within appropriate limits . And the creation of such a new culture would seem to be the first order of business . " Morris , Henry C. The History ...
... seems that a new kind of culture could be built up that would contain the new technology within appropriate limits . And the creation of such a new culture would seem to be the first order of business . " Morris , Henry C. The History ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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