Word: awaken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no need to awaken the city of Barcelona, which has just opened an exposition of its own. Barcelona is Spain's greatest seaport, most modern, most commercially successful city of the Iberian peninsula. Barcelona's exposition buildings on a hillside overlooking the city are new, strikingly modernistic...
...thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals of the nodding flowers and scatter the miasmic mists of darkness. This is the measure of our faith...
...seeking to express our grief over brave comrades fallen by our side in battle. . . . This tragic toll exacted by the Grim Reaper may awaken the American people to a new understanding. . . . We loved these fallen comrades of ours. . . . Vaile, called from the lofty outlook of his beloved mountains to the infinite horizons of eternity. . . . King, efficient attorney of Galesburg. . . . Oldfield, a man four square. . . . Butler, elder statesman, delicate whimsical humor. . . . Frothingham, gentleman of the old school...
...cities grow, however, cities awaken. Chicago has taken its shore lines in hand, built new land with sandsuckers and made a new outer-driveway to the south as well as a made-land drive skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street...
...When the dry forces of America awaken to the fact that they must have a real Prohibition Party in charge of law enforcement they will make more definite progress toward stamping out the drink evil...