Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third in 1933, the fourth in 1902. These backward glances are intended to illuminate, in some consequential happening in the past, the buried influences that determine a character's conduct at the present moment. The glimpses ahead in turn show how his reactions at present mould his decisions in the future...
Since the University has made no effort to freeze into a permanent mould the relative size of the departments, there is no cause for complaint about the harshness of the quota system. Many departments have already increased their quotas, bowing to popular demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...
...front pages United Pressman Wallace Carroll cabled: "Italy's bombing planes grounded for lack of gasoline, her terrifying scooter tanks stalled in the Ethiopian mountains without fuel, her battleships tied to their docks with cold boilers, her war-industries closed for lack of pig iron and steel to mould into munitions-these are the objectives of League of Nations penalties approved by the economic subcommittee today...
When John Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 for his Harper's Ferry raid, Thomas Brigham Bishop happened to be in nearby Martinsburg. Taking paper & pencil he dashed off the crude verses of John Brown's Body Lies a-Mould' ring in the Grave, set them to the music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after...
...directly answering his own question, Bishop Gailor continued: "The capitalistic, profit-motive machine system defeated itself." Then he offered his own solution: "The Christian religion has demonstrated its power to mould the social and political character of the world; but its real force is in working from within by influencing and transforming the individual human sou!. It is not a mere system of philanthropy. It is not a cure for social misery that can be applied from the outside; but ... it brings to each man and woman the message of redemption, and offers them a new nature and new life...