Word: knit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simon Bolivar's dream of a closely-knit union of Pan-American states faded when only four delegates appeared at his first conference in 1826. The notion persisted, however, and inspired the first American International conference called by the United States fifty years later. That and succeeding conferences failed alike to produce a union, and probably nothing definite of that sort will result from the fifth Pan-American Conference, now in session at Santiago...
...United States. This is due in part to the community of ideas and ideals between the two governments and to similarity of their political institutions. As in America we have the state existing as a strong unit of political independence and yet forming a part of the well-knit federal government, so in China they have the province as the local unit with the same ideal of a political liberty reconciled with a national unity...
More and more the alumni are coming to take an active hand in University life. The well-knit organization developed by the Associated Harvard Clubs and the Alumni Association throughout the country, and intensified by the Endowment Fund drive, tends to close up the gap between graduates and undergraduates which has existed more or less unconsciously in the past. The four years of undergraduate life are no longer the be-all and end-all, if ever they were. Today in graduating a man can look forward to as real a Harvard, as that he is leaving behind...
...whole difficulty in Mexico lies far deeper; it is the total lack of any strong tradition to use as a cornerstone in building up a government, English speaking peoples have established themselves into strong, firmly-knit nations all over the world, and the underlying secret of their success has been the Angio-Saxon tradition of the common law, as deeply ingrained as the English stock itself. Germans have held together through common inheritance of the agelong tradition of loyalty to the chief, handed down from the wandering tribes of the "Germania" in Tacitus's day. France, shaken by revolutions half...
...saved from becoming the pampered little mammet that she appeared during her last weeks with Mrs. Monnerie. "The World", says Miss M., "wields a sharp pin and is pitiless to bubbles". The story is a miracle in execution--thoroughly Greek in its symmetry and close-knit restraint. The texture of it is like carefully and beautifully wrought music. The economy of art revealed on every page is amazing. No incident, no detail, however trivial it may seem, but serves its purpose and recurs, like a theme in music, to startle one with recollected beauty. It has an inevitable quality...