Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...susceptible of quick settlement. Lie's pragmatism serves U.N. well when, like his mother, he is merely caring for the daily needs of his cosmopolitan guests. But the world's governments and peoples will not get from Trygve Lie the vision and leadership necessary to transform U.N. from a mere Council of Ambassadors, waiting docilely for instructions from their capitals, into something resembling a world government...
Emphasizing passing and team play, MacDonald is trying hard to transform the soccermen from the hot and cold outfit they have been all season to a steady, coordinated eleven. "We have not had a particularly good season this year," MacDonald said yesterday, "but it is a good team and I think chances are pretty good for taking Yale...
...Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints, and from this same stern eyric now comes...
...problem of the educator is, above all, to touch, awaken, perhaps even transform the student. Proceeding from small things that can be seen and felt, to large things that can be dealt with only in abstraction, is one of the surest ways of igniting the diffident...
...Great Design. "There is a remedy which, if it were generally and spontaneously adopted by the great majority of people in the many lands, would, as if by a miracle, transform the whole scene and would in a few years make all Europe, or the greater part of it, as free and as happy as Switzerland is today...