Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Youth of Maxim (Lenfilm) relates the adventures which transform a jolly young factory worker into a hard-working member of the party which preserved the spark of the Russian Revolution after the unsuccessful revolt of 1905. When first seen, Maxim (Boris Chirkov) is stumping off to work cheerfully enough with his two companions, Andrei and Dyoma. Andrei is killed in a factory accident caused by an overseer's neglect. In the riots that follow, Dyoma kills a policeman. He and Maxim are carted off to jail where Dyoma is shot. By the time Maxim is freed, he is ready...
...State is to be encouraged by impunity," concluded France, "that is equivalent to abolishing the whole idea of contract and obligation. . . . There would soon be no room for any policy but one, force." Within 24 hours Germany had put enough pressure on the all but defenseless Scandinavian countries to transform their Foreign Ministers at Geneva into ardent lobbyists against any Council action which might impute even blame to Germany. Meanwhile Swiss defectives claimed to have unmasked a plot to assassinate the Foreign Ministers of France, Czechoslovakia and Rumania who are known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over...
...brain acquires its final pattern and shape, although only about four-fifths adult size, between the fourth and sixth years. "In other words, we send our children to school when all their mental faculties are potentially present, awaiting education to transform them into abilities...
Backed to the hilt by President Roosevelt, Coordinator Eastman proposed to transform U. S. transportation into an integrated national industry by the following methods...
...mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...