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The massive departments and agencies that prevailed in the great struggles of the twentieth century must work together in new ways, so that all the instruments of national power can be combined.
Some very talented people have brought their knowledge to bear on everyday questions and problems of language in this book: Martin Manser, whose Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary was favorably reviewed here [XIV, 2]; Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary ; Jonathon Green, compiler of the Thesaurus of Slang, Newspeak , and a Dictionary of Jargon (soon to be reviewed here); and John Silverlight, who writes a language column in The Observer , which I have not seen.
The principle of national self-determination, urged so adamantly in the twentieth century, derives from the same source: every nation is entitled to preserve its own culture, cultivate its language, and express itself as a subject of the international community.
An earlier version of this paper was presented as an oral paper at the American College of Physicians, Maryland area associates twentieth annual meeting, May 2002, Baltimore, MD.
Starting in the early twentieth century at the Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine, United States), the production of inbred strains of mice and the systematic collection and characterization of naturally occurring mutants have created the building blocks on which much of the research using animal models is now based.