Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary. He made the fur fly. He put down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...
...Scotch tart being named for Lady Alice Scott last week, the austere, technical voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
...shop music was glorified in an American Ballad Contest held under the popular and versatile leadership of Park Commissioner Robert Moses. While preliminary contests of barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles...
...Hutchins has in half his life without causing the world to wonder what the second half may hold for him. Just now not even his intimates can get Bob Hutchins to say any more than that he is vastly interested in Education. Having launched a program which should eventually transform U. S. Education, he is brimful of ideas for extending and improving it. But, though he thinks with vigorous independence about educational problems, he is not primarily a theorist. The New Plan, as he has often pointed out, is the work of many minds. His genius lies in possessing...
During the grand rally which tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists conducted at Henry Ford's Dearborn, Mich. fortnight ago to transform farm products into factory goods, chemical engineers emerged as key men of the entire procedure...