Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best build up in the hearts and minds of children a resistance to war that will carry them through war epidemics in the future? Do we not need to instill in them not only a horror of war as futile and cruel but a sense of justice and tolerance toward races and nations not their own, which will deepen their love of humanity to the point where they will be willing to make sacrifices for the common good? In this method I feel we must persist, even after we have joined the World Court and the league and codified...
...Anyone who isn't keen to help build the Cathedral after seeing and hearing Bishop Manning talk about it doesn't know a good sport when he sees one .... The thing that I am afraid of is that somebody will think he is doing God Almighty a favor by contributing to the Cathedral...
...letter published in the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin" of December 18, Mr. F. R. Stoddard '99 stated that at Commencement last year his class sat next the class of 1924 and he was amazed because "the majority of the Senior class seemed to be short in stature, frail of build, round shouldered, and wearing glasses...
...internal forces that prevented agreement for hundreds of years still operate, as post-war history illustrates but too clearly. And then there is France. The key to her whole recent diplomacy is her attempt to ring her former foes around with her own military satellites and to build up these petty states as much as possible. A union of Austria and Germany would certainly strengthen the former and possibly the latter; and French policy demands the weakening of both. Inasmuch as a single vote in the Council of the League can block this project, France holds the whip hand...
...That he desires to retire from public life after 20 years of service, with the implied corollary that he will build up his personal fortune, too long neglected, by returning to his lucrative law practice. (The official reason...