Word: extended
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attacked them from without. The leading men of the lower South displayed a constantly heightened pride and a more and more stubborn unwillingness to concede anything whatever to the outside opponents of their system. But no success attended the efforts of the Southerners, in the fifties, to improve and extend their industrial system without changing it. The actual process by which slavery was in the end overthrown was in fact quite foreign to the purposes of the avowed abolitionists. They contributed to the result only by exciting the North, not by devising any plan of action and getting the North...
...among the Jews. The Episcopal principle, that of one man as the head and director, is recognized everywhere and is a necessary part of social life; the Diaconate as an office designed for the care of the poor, is also necessary. But we have a right to extend our idea of these functions, so as to embrace rulers, judges, administrators, the officials charged with the welfare of the poor. They are all doing the work of Christ's church...
...church is the organization that is not merely swayed by Christ's influence, but the organization that also definitely acknowledges his power and aims deliberately to extend it. In the middle ages through the growth in the power of the clergy the church lost its old apostolic character of a force working with and through men in all their daily work, and came to be regarded as a spiritual hierarchy above and apart from the rest of society. The true Church of Christ is more democratic and practical than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates...
...Cambridge Park Commissian has been making plans to extend the park system, above the Harvard Bridge along the river as far as Brookline street, crossing the Albany tracks by an overhead bridge. The sea wall will be continued some 280 feet and then turned in at an angle to meet a beach which will be constructed as far as the tracks. About 150,000 cubic yards of filling will be required, most of which will be taken from the river bed. This will reduce to a great extent the large mud flats which are so prominent at low water...
...parkway of the Cambridge Park Commission which now extends for a short distance above the Boylston Street bridge is to be continued to a small landmark known as Gerry's Landing. To this point the Metropolitan Park Commission are to extend the Fresh Pond parkway and here they intend to build a bridge connecting that park system with Soldiers Field...