Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this drowned world the Dutch water engineers prepared to rebuild the dikes and dry the land behind them. It was calculated that the work had to be completed before November 1945 or the damage to the island would be permanent. To accomplish it, the engineers started with four rowboats, three cars, eight horse-carts, twelve hand shovels, two wrenches, and a few hundred laborers. They succeeded...
...half-light of the gilt and plush Chamber of Deputies lurked the specters of a resurgent Germany, of France's own military impotence. As they listened to the debate, deputies also thought of the 60 Red Army divisions facing westward, of Washington and London, who want to rebuild a Western German state; of millions of other little Europeans who fear that this major step towards European reconstruction may plunge them instead into...
...places. What should not be allowed to happen is the insidiously silent junking of all but a ghost of the system that has occurred, for example, in the Economics Department. Only action by the administration or the faculty as a whole can save the best aspects of tutorial and rebuild them into an integrated system. It is such action that is called...
...over secure careers to gamble on making a newspaper out of PM? Said Joe Barnes: "A challenge I couldn't resist." Said Bart Crum: "America has been running the wrong way since the fall of Germany. There's been a decline of faith. We want to help rebuild faith in the U.S. and in peace...
...explosion, the bereft earth may have to fall back on the descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...