Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zamenhof's original idea was to resuscitate a dead language. Then he tried to construct a new tongue on an a priori basis. Finally he fell back on the roots of extant languages, selecting from European sources chiefly. His choice was guided by a desire for internationality, but his results were not satisfactorily impartial...
...Scout Rally in which more than 3000 are expected to participate, will be held. The rally will contain many novel features, a wall-scaling race by eight teams from various parts of Boston and Massachusetts, and a bridge building exhibition in which Troop 39 of Dorchester will construct out of rope and wood a bridge and dismantle it again, in 25 minutes. Several sea scouting activities will also be demonstrated...
...this question, there are several answers, he went on to say. We must consider the plight of Europe. It is impossible for us to realize the chaos and tragedy in which Europe has been plunged by the World War. "Fighting cannot construct--cannot bring order out of chaos, nor have politics been able to solve the problem. These evils must be wiped out by religion. Nations must dare to apply the principles of the New Testament to business and international relationship. Religion is not a top dress to be worn on Sundays and discarded week days. It is the vital...
...atheist and confessed that he had an extreme dislike for the church from earliest childhood. His mother had him baptized secretly. He became one of the leading literary men of Italy because of his brilliant attacks on even such philosophical systems as Haeckel or Nietzsche could construct. He was known as an atheist, an anarchist, a nihilist. Then financial troubles drove him to leave his native Florence and live within the confines of a poor little mountain village. Here he became acquainted with the lowly, the humble and those that labor and are heavy laden. Here he opened the four...
...Where Swiss cheeses are unfailingly represented with holes for their identification, just as a tail differentiates man and monkey in the same school of Art. The disclosure of this difficulty will, of course, play havoc with the popular idea that the holes depend upon gangs of Swiss maidens who construct them with their teeth as well as the rival theory that the marksman ship of the Swiss fleet is responsible for the regularity of the pattern...