Sentence:  Their <WSD>kind</WSD> created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality