Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landscape Architect I have worked closely with different groups of architects over a wide area, and only recently have I found one who had any conception of the functions of the professional Landscape Architect. The great majority still cling to the fantastic notion that the primary work of such a man is to crowd shrubbery around the foundations of the buildings he has designed...
...pacifist, and I believe we may one day have to fight against Hitler or the system he has made. But if we must have ideals for which to fight let us not cling to the empty ones of warmongers or misdirected intellectuals. A future lies before us, if only we can open our eyes to it, in which men may lie sincerely and to the best of their ability...
...Miniature Speedway were newfangled rail-racing enthusiasts, competing in the first miniature rail-racing championship of the U. S. In rail-racing, far more exciting to watch, cars usually race in threes (against time) around a banked wooden oval, one-sixteenth of a mile in circumference. They cling to the oval's steel rails by means of ball-bearing rollers (attached to the front and rear axles), which fit under the rails' flanges...
...fashioned sentimentality and Spanish senoritas are the latest numbers on Harvard's musical hit parade. That students in Cambridge cling to the accepted tunes and types in popular music and fail to take the lead in forming styles or hits, is the opinion of the leading record concerns on the Square...
...their minds there is always a crisis in which their services are indispensable. Always some great work at hand which they, and they alone, can do. Outwardly, they pretend that they groan under the burden and would be glad to lay it down, but in their secret souls they cling to their places. . . . The friends and sycophants of the incumbent . . constantly assure their chief that the public good demands that he should not desert the ship. This . . . sweet music that is a curse of kings...