Word: bring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither Weizmann nor anyone else had a way to bring order out of tohuvavohu...
...dissenters who were under party censure for getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly as a token of protest...
...this self-criticism is just, then we must revise the whole of our present conception of modern history.. . . Our present view of modern history focuses attention on the rise of our modern Western secular civilization as the latest great new event in the world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen to be a very different...
...bushy-bearded, one-armed Henry Baldwin (he lost the other arm in a cane-mangler) who built the Baldwin dynasty. He went partners with Sam Alexander, son of another missionary. At a cost of $80,000 and harrowing effort, Henry built the 17-mile-long Hamakua Ditch to bring irrigation to the cane fields. With son Frank, he once swam a flooded gulch in order to get to church. Through such God-fearing boldness, coupled with Yankee-trader shrewdness, the business prospered, became one of the "Big Five"* which reach across the biggest part of Hawaii's economy...
Weld stated last night: "The delegates selected at the coming election will make a tremendous difference to the Student Council and the student body next year. The ideas they bring back from the convention will have a direct effect on the functionings of the Council and will be worth only as much as the delegates the student body elects to send to Madison...