Word: builded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he believes Conservation is CCC's first & foremost aim, Director Fechner also believes that for his corps the spade is mightier than the sword and a better weapon. Should U. S. youth be militarized to build up Army reserves, he would have Congress: i) forget the work program and go in exclusively for military training, 2) would draw trainees from all classes of the population. If this would make a final mockery of William James's peaceful idea, it would at least fulfill the James idea of making use of gilded youth...
...raids. By last autumn many an ardent antiFascist, his belly gnawed by hunger and his nerves frayed by bombs, began to wonder if, after all, the oppression of Fascism could be any worse. When, three days before Barcelona fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers-the "Fifth Column"-openly showed their political feelings...
...below Britain's output in 1918. There has been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
...there had better be special prayers." > A group should arrange early to hear from a priest about the Doctrine of the Mystical Body-which holds that with Christ as the Head, all Christians are members of His mystical body, and of one another. > It takes about three years to build an efficient Catholic Action unit...
...scorns wasting two or three of them on fire insurance; an ex-Captain who lost all his nerve under fire, all his possessions in a fire; a cabinetmaker, who keeps forgetting to mail a letter to an insurance company taking out a fire policy; a profiteer, who wants to build a cinema on the Yard's site, wishes a fire would save him the trouble of razing it; a wistful bum who pillages the Yard garbage bins with a candle in his shaky hand; a couple of professional arsonists...