Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heir to the 40 Kings that made France." The Communists, in an election manifesto, urged a real Bolshevik dictator and the enaction of the following program: " Extinction of the public debt by confiscation of great fortunes; socialization of banks, mines, railroads, industries, insurance; requisition of dwellings for the proletariat; creation of a workmen's and peasants' militia; constitution of a high court of justice to try persons responsible for the War and for its prolongation; cancellation of the Treaty of Versailles; conclusion of a new peace without either war indemnities or annexations; substitution for the League of Nations...
...this is a development of about 30 years, a creation by newspaper men for the sake of journalism. The Associated Press is entirely owned by its members who contribute to pay its expenses. Its nonpartisanship, its accuracy, its great scope are not only generally acknowledged, but unequalled by any other news agency anywhere at anytime...
...Harvard's special work is not the creation of artists or the support of an Art School, of which there are many in museums and colleges, but the deepening in her students of a knowledge of art, such knowledge as will make them leaders in the teaching of Art to leaders, and teachers throughout the country. And here again the work is done not from books but by a study of the originals, and such work in the detection of forgery, the preservation of art treasures, and sympathy with color and form, as will make the homes of our people...
...disappointed. The story of the great Marxian's creation of the Bolshevist Party, of his tremendous single-handed fight to swing its other leaders to his extreme radicalism, and of his leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes...
Particularly prominent was the Marion Davies, a tulip by John Scheepers. When asked why he chose this name for his work, Florist Scheepers replied: "The hours of pleasure I obtained from her film successes have more than paid for the seven years of work necessary in the creation of the new flower...