Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was how some U. S. rabbis felt in 1885, before political Zionism was more than a dream in Jewish hearts. The rabbis were Reformed Jews, in the vanguard of the movement in the U. S. They met in Pittsburgh, drew up a "Platform" as a guide for Reformed Judaism, put their views on Zionism in paragraph No. 5. Further, their Platform rejected old Jewish ideas of bodily resurrection, of Gehenna and Eden. Mosaic and rabbinical laws of diet, priestly purity and dress the Reformed rabbis found incompatible with modern life. They staked their faith on "the indwelling...
...course, it's lovely to dream of every little hamlet having its own little priest, and him his own little wife, and them their own little darling, all together (icebox and all) in their own little rectory. But it might be wiser to wake...
...Bois's earnest analysis of the post-war years, will find themselves in an historical wonderland in which all familiar scenes and landmarks have been changed or swept away, surrounded by old historic facts in strange and novel dress, by new facts of whose existence they did not dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike; that the era of carpetbag rule...
...great dream, the dream of all Cossacks, is destruction of Communism. It is as foreign to us as poverty is to Americans and we shall get rid of it just as you will...
...possession of the: British kings. Leonardo left most of his notes to his pupil Francesco Melzi. All his life he had worked less on particular jobs than on general problems, on the reason for things, on a vast effort to transpose a closely-observed reality into a dream of possible perfection. Could he have found a serviceable fuel, he might have produced an airplane in the 15th Century. All his life he returned again & again to the study of the flight of birds, the flow of water, the wherefore of wind, the movement of horses, the muscles...