Word: fabricate
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...will deny that pillars of antiquity in the fabric of certain human institutions preserve for them a certain charm and dignity. However, where such pillars are substituted for scientific pillars capable of shouldering the increased load with less strain, grave danger is unnecessarily involved. It cannot possibly be that Harvard has extended the rule of the survival of the fittest in its fullest sense. This is impossible, for it is opposed to reason...
...find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work and vulgarized it, as did our very original, potent-seeming Bernard Shaw. But who cares for the fabric of a well monogramed kerchief...
Recounting the history of the economic relations between France and the Russians since the war, and developing the thesis that France could not assist in the economic restoration of Russia until the latter country changed her present political and social fabric, Pannier closed with the statement that when the time was ripe France would lead the way in opening Russia to the world. In his address Greene pictured France as the savior of civilization and discussed her present position in the spirit of Europe, while Begg delivered a well-considered speech on the necessities--military, economic, and social--for close...
...profession of coordination. The professional course we give at Antioch all centre themselves in this--the development of ability to gather together the various tangled threads of forces, conditions, and affairs which make up the elements of any potential human accomplishment, and to weave them into a perfect fabric, showing the texture and design of a preconceived play--that is what we mean when we speak of training the manager, the entrepreneur, the proprietor. Despite all the specialized training of all our schools, the world always has paid its highest tributes to the coordinator,--whether he be King, philosopher...
...Wounded Bird", however, is the very stuff and fabric of a dream. It is a lovely thing. The closing lines breathe the spirit of the whole poem...