Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Professor Packard intends to do is build up in sufferers a confidence in their ability to conquer this difficulty and then let them do the actual work and practice themselves. This can often be done by finding a circumstance under which a person who ordinarily stutters is free from this impediment, and then building up from that...
...date PWA has earmarked $146,000,000 for the Government itself to tear down slums in 33 cities, build places fit to live in. Of a total of 39 projects, not a spadeful of earth has been broken. Only in eight cases have steps been taken to acquire the ground. To blame: greedy landowners, hostile landlords, pettifogging politicians...
...British naval disagreement. Last week this disagreement remained exactly what it has been ever since the Coolidge Naval Conference at Geneva (TIME, Aug. 15, 1927 et ante). Inside the global tonnage in which the U. S. and Britain are amicably equal they are angrily desirous of building somewhat different kinds of ships. The U. S., poorly equipped with naval bases, needs war boats of comparatively large tonnage and consequent long cruising range. Britain, well equipped with bases from which to refuel her fleets, would like to build smaller war boats, thus enabling her to pack a greater number of fighting...
French taunts at Italy, to the effect that she is "too poor'' to build the two new 35,000 ton super-battleships which Premier Mussolini announced last May, were abruptly silenced last week when Il Duce caused steel for the frames of the two ships to be dumped at the yards ready for assembling. "Work will be begun on the twelfth anniversary of the March on Rome, Oct. 28," announced the Dictator's press office. "Naval chaplains will bless the work on both ships as the riveting begins...
Your editor then goes on: "If the church is to continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them." This is indeed a dangerous doctrine, all the more so because of its prevalence among our leaders today. Your editor will recall that Jesus of Nazareth didn't attempt to "extract the virtues from existing institutions." Quite the contrary, he fought the two most powerful of these institutions with all the physical and intellectual force which he could command. These two institutions were the Money-changers...