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Final solution   /fˈaɪnəl səlˈuʃən/   Listen
Final solution

noun
1.
The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945.  Synonym: Holocaust.






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"Final solution" Quotes from Famous Books



... the use of new re-agents, and of mechanical appliances; but the ultimate atoms of which matter is composed are so infinitesimally minute, that it is difficult to foresee any manner in which we may hope for a final solution ...
— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock

... on March 4, and the situation was correctly described. Seward led for the moment, but his supremacy was not unchallenged and soon a decision was called for that in its final solution was to completely overthrow his already matured policy towards the seceding States. Buchanan had been pressed by South Carolina to yield possession of federal property in that State and especially to withdraw Federal troops from Fort ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... the West. They are difficult to meet. They are near, and the troubles which the questions hold are near. They come close to the heart of Christianity. They are close to the life of the churches. They are close to the first principles of human rights. They are questions that can have only one final solution, which may be so remote that fearful dangers will culminate in terrible disasters before the only remedy can do its work. There are now nearly eight millions of a Negro population, from four millions twenty years ago. There are more ...
— American Missionary, Volume XLII. No. 11. November 1888 • Various

... expressiveness, we have lost a two-fold means of producing vocal beauty. Let us rejoice in the gain, by all means; but not without some consciousness of the loss, not with too ready a belief that the final solution of the problem has ...
— Plays, Acting and Music - A Book Of Theory • Arthur Symons

... and competent thinker, and it is fortunate for the world that one of M. Bergson's quality is forthcoming. He is too wise a man, he knows the history of human thought too well, he realizes too clearly the extent of the problem to pretend that his is the last word or that he has in his pocket the final solution of the puzzle of the universe and the one and only panacea for human distresses. But he has one of the most subtle and penetrating intellects acting in and upon the world at this moment, and is more worthy of attention than all the charlatans. That he has obtained for ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn

... was recommending no particular solution. A little earlier in the same speech he illustrated the deep sense of all experienced British statesmen that there never is or can be in the British system any final solution of any grave problem, the vital essence of the system being flux and ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... adoption of plans for the consolidation of the railway properties into a limited number of systems; permitted pooling under the authorization of the Commission; and provided for the accumulation of reserve funds and a fund for purchasing additions to railway equipment. Whether a final solution of the transportation problem or not, the new act embodied much of the experience gained since the passage of the law ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... found that all the conditions obtaining in the alkali-cellulose stage affect the subsequent viscose reaction and the properties of the final solution. The most important are obviously the proportion of alkali to cellulose and the length of time they are in contact before being treated with carbon disulphide. An excess of alkali beyond the 'normal' proportion—viz. 2NaOH per 1 mol. C{6}H{10}O{5}—has little influence upon the viscose ...
— Researches on Cellulose - 1895-1900 • C. F. Cross



Words linked to "Final solution" :   race murder, racial extermination, genocide, holocaust



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