Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became by a second adoption the daughter of a Court functionary, Colonel Lam Bhate, whose duty it became to give her in marriage...
...Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more to transform the American system of government from its age-old purpose of protecting life, liberty, and property into a scheme for social control and the regulation of personal conduct and personal relations...
...Selling $53,000,000 worth of State bonds to transform Mississippi muck into motor roads...
...That evening there was in the audience calling aloud with the rest, a young Hungarian of godlike features and stature, who was to transform the chaste nymph that I was into a wild and careless Bacchante...
...speech, they said, and thinking is only thinking. Lost arts, they said, are discussed at institutes of arts and sciences, but they remain, .after all, lost arts. U. S. politics remain U. S. politics. It is far too soon to say whether Senator Borah or any one else can transform the topic about which U. S. citizens think and feel the most, from the great Hush-Hush of the politicians in both parties to the one real issue of the campaign...