Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keir continued, "It would be next to impossible to transform Harvard into a group of English Colleges. The expense would be tremendous, and I'm not sure that I advocate the change; but if the gap was not made too wide it might be well for Harvard to emulate Oxford in many respects...
...regarded as having been held, and to have resulted virtually in favor of Peru." It is also asserted that Chile had subsequently " destroyed the conditions for an honest plebiscite by artificially changing the voting population." To permit a plebiscite to be held would be, in Peruvian eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from...
Thus with Verne and other aids people are beginning to have a contempt for the stories of mysterious denizens of the deep. Sea-serpents will be found crouching among the water lilies of every garden pool, and the next problem in upholstering will be how to transform the octopus into the parlor couch...
...Thou knowest how great is the need of Thy word and gesture at this special time. Thou knowest well that Thy glance can transform our spirit, that Thy voice can summon us from the depths of our misery...
...This is an attempt on the part of the present Administration to transform a political difference of opinion into a criminal prosecution. If the indictments are upheld no President would ever be free to exercise his functions as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy...