Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quotes an active politician. Tukio Ozaki, to the effect that martial success has impeded true progress. It has given Japan a sense of security, of a security which can be only temporary, and thus has removed the incentive to build carefully in politics, education, or industry. He divides the period of awakening and westerrization into two parts, the one extending through the Russian war and fraught with apt imitation: the other since that time and significant of decline...
...Baltimore. This circumstance, which seems to unite in him the sentiments of orthodoxy and reform, joins with his heritage from the west where the anti-saloon league did its systematic best, to make the Idaho Senator a man marked for the cause. Indeed, Mr. Borah possesses a Bryanesque build and the same loud sympathies which gave the commoner his crusading character. And both won fame from the power of invective. One cannot call the New York drys backward in recognizing the resemblance. They hope to find in Borah one who as gained note as Bryan gained...
Ericsson successfully undertook to build an ironclad war vessel in 90 days to cope with the dreaded ironclad Merrimac with which the Confederates hoped to destroy the shipping of the North. In constructing the Monitor, Captain Ericsson invented the turret and its mechanism, and more than 40 patentable ideas which made this armored vessel the precursor of the modern battleship?and all these inventions he presented to the Government for its use without charge. He made for use in this man-of-war the first forged projectile, which he had demonstrated at the proving grounds would penetrate the armor...
...much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger and fairer sister, coming back to build wings on the palace to shelter his three chief attachments. His ever-delicate actions and long, exceedingly elevated conversations, set down like tracery on rice-paper by Lady Murasaki long, long ago, are anglicized with great felicity by scholarly Translator Waley...
...outbursts of undergraduate liberal zeal (TIME, Oct. 19, 1925), erased from the college rule book the compulsion to attend divine services daily. Beginning next autumn young Elis will worship when they see fit. The local Y. M. C. A. representatives professed themselves well pleased. "Now," said they, "Yale can build up a true university church, supported by sincere religious sentiment." The Yale News (undergraduate daily) was even better pleased, having laid down the first militant anti-chapel barrage in 1921 under fearless Editor Edwin Victor Hale Jr., and completed the campaign this year with thunderous siege editorials by resolute Editors...