Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masons bought a block of tenements in South Philadelphia. With another $40,000 and Negro labor they will transform the block into a low-cost housing project for Negroes, with 1-2-3 room, air-conditioned apartments built around a central fresh air court. This community centre is to have a gymnasium, bowling alley, chapel, a social worker in charge. Work was scheduled to start this week...
...doubtful that all of these things will happen and that a very mediocre Bulldog eleven will transform itself into a great eleven Saturday. But any one of the three may conceivably take place when Captain Macdonald's men find themselves lined up with a Blue team facing them Saturday...
...herdsmen of Outer Mongolia drive out their ruling princes and establish the Mongolian People's Republic with a population of 800,000 and an area of one million square miles, almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks and trucks and fly airplanes. The Republic now has an Army estimated...
Following up Mr. Chamberlain's unofficial hints, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare conjured up an even glossier picture of peace prospects. He saw five men-Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain-getting together to sit down at a disarmament conference table and "transform the whole history of the world."* Said Sir Samuel...
...Embassy, a palatial building is now being completed to house the Apostolic Delegation from the Vatican. Should events go so far that the U. S. decides to renew diplomatic relations (broken off in 1868) with the 108.7-acre Vatican State, only a change of name would be necessary to transform the building into a Papal legation...