Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President be protracted without end. Accepting his prize of $41,595 in the broadest spirit, he concluded: "If we contemplate as our ultimate end a League controlling the world's economic life and its armed forces, then we must say frankly that our ultimate ideal is the creation of nothing less than a World Commonwealth...
...gold and black with bulbous gold clouds from which issue silver thunderbolts. Before it is released this week or next the final drawings will be submitted to a commercial artist for advice. The firm's own designers, says Mr. Rabkin, get so wrought up over each new creation that they are totally unable to see the simplest flaws...
...both Vergil Harris, the husband and Grandma, are set pieces. They live their restricted lives in the Harris' hill-top shanty, they are used for the purposes of background, but they do not often carry the story forward. Neither does Amy, the youngest child. Amy is a literary creation, a very amusing one. She is the little girl who swears and sings bawdy songs (taught by Grandma) with the sublime innocence of her type. But she would be missed in the novel...
...answered as completely as possible the letter of December 6, which is itself a mass of vague and indefinite statements. It includes such obvious absurdities as: "An athletic administration with absolute authority over finances and publicity has completely estranged all active and enthusiastic alumni interests and support in the creation and maintenance of good football at Harvard." There has not been one proof brought up to fortify the allegation of "administrative dictatorship"; yet the writers expect more facts to answer an accusation which they have thoroughly veiled in obscure generalities. You cannot support a case with facts against an opposition...
Annually invited to thus perform on the Wellesley stage, the Harvard actors this year have found themselves in part disguised and encased in the armor of "R.U.R.'s" mechanical men, as the drama deals with the creation of a race of robots who finally conquer their human makers and destroy the world...