Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosecuted because they are Communists. . . . The prosecution suggests that Communism, as it is understood and explained by these persons and their associates, is illegal because it involves three things: first, the overthrow of the constituted Government of the country and the established forms of Government by force; second, the creation of antagonism between different classes of His Majesty's subjects; third, seducing from their allegiance of the armed force of the Crown...
...desire to share in the legislation of international affairs. Until Woodrow Wilson unsuccessfully attempted to give a country, reacting from a novel liason with European politics, a tangible and lasting connection with international affairs through the League covenants, the interest of the government at Washington in the creation of some kind of court was repeatedly evidenced. In truth, the survival of that expression is the Court of Arbitration still functioning at the Hague. But this is merely a panel of eminent jurists who function as consulting lawyers and cannot be considered a real court. The need for a means...
...susceptiveness of their minds to artistic things, their background of training and discipline received in the concentration on objects of beauty and art, and the capacity for giving their very best in the fulfillment of an artistic creation--these are the reasons why we have tried to make up the entire cast of the 'Miracle' from among college men and women...
...Committee to Investigate the Problems of Education at Harvard indicates the assumption by the Council of one of the most important of its legitimate functions. Final judgment on this action must, of course, be suspended until the new Committee has justified itself by its deeds. At least, the creation of such a body is proof of a healthy attitude on the part of undergraduates. It has often been asserted that one of the greatest troubles in the colleges lies with the students themselves. If this be true, then the fact that they are now beginning to realize that their development...
...Shaw, famed vegetarian, has frequently reminded his readers with asperity that geese must be fastened to a board and forcibly fed for some time, in order that their livers may attain the size and lusciousness requisite for the creation of this superb liver-paste...