Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assumed on the day Germany invaded Poland was to transform a worse-than-disarmed U.S. into the world's most effective military power-and in time. In four years General Marshall was personally responsible for, at the minimum, these seven achievements...
From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...
Beyond the Campus. But Phelps was moving on to greater extramural triumphs. He helped transform book reviewing from a scholarly exercise for the cognoscenti into an evangelical service for the man who reads while he runs. In 1922 he launched his "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, each month thereafter glowed with enthusiasm for the most wonderful book of the month (or year or decade...
...cannot rely on military strength alone. We must mobilize the spirit of the whole nation. . . . We must transform the will of our people into a powerful weapon . . . a dynamic force...
...negative one, based mainly on past disappointments and past inactions. There is little positive hostility, but also few positive optimistic expectations, much disinterest. On the other hand, there is a widespread desire for religion to take a bigger part in the life of the community. . . . Action . . . might quickly transform widespread passive good will into some thing dynamic. . . . But the signs are that, in present mood, little else will...