Word: interwoven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overpayment. Two million dollars was no overpayment for the university's contribution to Quebec. Ever since Bishop de Laval started his seminary to train French and Indian priests, the history of the school and of French Canada have been interwoven. Laval was the center of learning in New France. After the British conquest, it continued to educate French-speaking leaders. Money from Bishop de Laval's lands (granted to him by Louis XIV) kept the school going. Laval turned out scholars who kept alive the French culture in the English-governed land...
...higher possibilities are revealed in each achievement. In all his anxious acts man faces the temptation of illimitable possibility. "There is therefore no limit of achievement in any sphere of activity in which human history can rest with equanimity." History cannot pause. Its evil and its good are inextricably interwoven. Says Niebuhr: the creative and the destructive elements in anxiety are so mixed that to purge even moral achievement of sin is not so easy as moralists imagine...
According to "Process and Reality," this universe is made up of a host of beings. Whitehead called them "actual occasions." Each was a point where the finished met the possible, where the ideas of God joined history, where the physical was interwoven with the mental. Each according to him, "prehended," laid hold of and made internal to itself all that lay beyond it, in the world that had been and in the world that might be, to constitute a novel present unity. Each was the juncture of the whole of the past and the whole of the future...
...Champagne was clad nattily in a double breasted serge creation with fine, interwoven stripes, while Vaughn Monroe were the same old band trimmed in while pique...
Appropriations had to be reduced. That was the first item on the Republican agenda. Taxes also had to be cut. These problems were interwoven. But G.O.P. fiscal experts did not talk so confidently as they once had of whacking off appropriations and slashing taxes 20%; closer study of the problems had made them more cautious. Nevertheless, they would attack with vigor...