Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frank examination of the social system showed that it, too, was in collapse; but in this case there was not such unanimity. The vast majority of our people, but by no means all, wanted to build it up on sounder foundations and on sounder new lines...
...explosive effect of these remarks was not due entirely to the fact that they revived the old argument whether capital ships are outmoded. The President proposes to build three of these $70,000,000 giants (besides two now building and two provided for in the 1939 appropriations), and by opposing them Maury Maverick, leader of the pro-Roosevelt left-wing bloc, showed his independence. His distaste for both the Naval and recession policies of the Administration he summed up on the floor of the House, saying...
...through college training. Party work in Parliament (regardless of the special label) still holds a strong attraction, while the "clever and cautious people" and those responsive to the prospect of administration activity prefer the civil service. For his American friends Mr. Walton suggests, however, that it "took centuries" to build the British public service tradition...
...play the role of Phillip of Macedon who too watched and waited while his neighbors exhausted themselves with incessant warfare. Like Phillip she may be waiting for one last destructive war, waiting for the moment to swoop down from the north, destroy her foolish, petty, squabbling neighbors, and build a new civilization on the ruins...
...wording was deplorable. President Conant seems aware that this is a democracy, but oblivious of the limitations inherent in a democracy. Until that golden Tomorrow, when "basic education is truly universal," the President will have to use words of two syllables or bear the consequences, for publicity, build-up, ballyhoo, and general "talking down" are essential to putting a point across to the general public...