Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, all such ephemeral and frivolous activities were merely the preparation, the ground work, for what was to come. Just as there must be a period of dry toll for every artist, so these months of drudgery were a flame which was to transform our dress into steel, and weld the metal into a tool, which, though worthless in itself, could act as an instrument through which might be transmitted that most glorious of clarion calls against intolerance, bigotry and injustice, that ringing, heartfelt appeal for liberty, that supreme endeavor of the human mind to pierce the outer encircling darkness...
...that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers' Cooperative" in his church, joined the Socialist Party last year, gathered about him earnest young radicals who maintained the congregation's size as the older conservatives dropped away...
...glance to be an easy one, yet there are such a number of possibilities, that it will not be easy to decide for what purpose the house would be best adapted. Two requirements, however, do seem essential. The use to which the building is put should in no way transform its physical exterior or interior, nor should it be made use of for any purpose which will not be of some benefit or enjoyment to the students or the faculty. Its convenient location in the Yard is too valuable to permit its being rented to any individual...
...prepared to contract in London a short-term loan, thereby benefiting by the superabundance of free money in the British money market. It will be ?25,000,000 or ?30,000,000 in bonds for six months at 2½%. By thus procuring pounds the French Treasury will transform them into francs on exchange in accordance with its needs and in accord with the Bank of England...
Profoundest aim of Russia's Piatiletki (FiveYear Plans) is to change human nature. To transform drudgery-begrudging serfs into enthusiastic labor "shock-troops"' might seem a big enough ambition, but U.S.S.R. plans go deeper than that. The Communist gospel is in truth a religion-a religion that teaches its adherents a new morality, and no good Communist is happy till he gets it. Most U.S.S.R. novels have been propaganda for the Communist State; Author Romanof's is propaganda for the Communist Individual...