Word: awakenning
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...London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much the setting...
...Against Legal Instability: A Christian "should collaborate toward a complete rehabilitation of the juridical order. The juridic sense of today is often altered and overturned. . . . The cure for this situation becomes feasible when we awaken again the consciousness of a juridical order resting on the supreme dominion of God, and safeguard from all human whims...
...geese, the liquid whistle of red-winged blackbirds. But they were drowned in greater sounds: factory whistles, rivet hammers, the sound of tractors, axes, exhausts. Greenup time was only a pastel shade among the primary colors of the revolutionized American landscape. There was no winter's slumber to awaken from, this year...
Hitler's first mistake in diplomacy was deceiving the British Prime Minister, for this was the one thing needed to awaken the English people to the realization that German politics were based upon deceit, according to Dr. William Hermanns in a talk in Emerson Hall last night...
Another student, Frank French '45, asked his room-mate to awaken him at a specified hour. But he forgot for a moment that said roommate is a radio and recording expert. He remembered fast enough, though, when he heard what sounded like the bells of Big Ben ringing in his ear--an alarm clock rigged up to a powerful amplifying apparatus...