Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, is it possible to attain to a view of life as something of intrinsic value? The answer to this question entails a complete philosophy of life which each man must construct for himself. My own feeling in the matter is that one gets an experience of infinite worth in certain relations with fellow-men. A real friendship may be the means of giving a lasting sense of values to the men bound by this tie. Hard work of the Carlyle or Emerson type is a possible answer to this riddle...
...corporation has given me permission to go ahead with plans on a $100,000 dining hall to be located on the old church site at Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, but the corporation does not intend to spend $100,000 to construct an empty hall. Do you men care for club tables...
Usually the income is insufficient. The ambitious builder is forced to construct anew to gain some funds which he may divert to pay defaults on the first building...
...from dogmatic. "We concede that our thesis has not been finally proven. Final proof is lacking regarding practically every point. We concede that the bipolar theory would fail to explain living processes if any other form of energy than electric energy could be proved to be adapted to construct and operate an organism which is identical with or analagous to that of the human organism...
...Ultimate purpose: to connect the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland by a trans-Abyssinian railway tapping much fertile country which might thus be brought under Italian dominance. fEventual design: to construct certain dams and waterworks among the Abyssinian headwaters of the Nile with intent to foster cotton growing in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The British dams would inundate numerous shrines held sacred by certain Abyssinian religious cults...