Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klux-Klan. Four years and some thousands of dollars at almost any college should and usually do accomplish more than that. As for any institution which which cannot do more, which faces the broadening, and cannot combine them alternative of giving an education or a--it had best transform itself into a preparatory school...
...Greek manner, in order that they may listen to one possessed of an innate spark which stimulates them to pursue further the subject under discussion. No perfection of the technical details of the educational system, can recompense for an absence of this evanescent quality; and no accumulation of degrees transform a great scholar to a great teacher...
...principals, one was a 194½-pound man, aged 32, of Irish descent?Jack Dempsey. Thick-lipped, splay-nosed, laconic, he was to demonstrate whether or not he could again transform himself into a smashing feline whirlwind in the boxing ring as he could from 1919 to 1926 when he was world's champion heavyweight...
Eggshell Debate. A major Anglo-U. S. point of contention last week, was whether, if the British proposal to limit cruiser guns to a six-inch bore were adopted, the British could transform their fast merchant fleet overnight into a cruiser fleet by mounting these little guns on the Mauretania, Majestic, Berengaria, Olympic...
...that "the Conference is not . . . composed of responsible delegates invested with full powers for the conclusion of conventions" but is rather "a general consultation, in the course of which various programs and doctrines may be freely exposed without the freedom of discussion being restricted by any immediate necessity to transform the conclusions of the conference into international engagements...