Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have a long road to go and I have never concealed from the nation or from the House the darker side of our dangers and burdens. But it is in adversity that the British qualities shine brightest. It is under these extraordinary tests that the character of our slowly wrought institutions reveals its latent and invincible strength. Up to the present this war has been waged between a fully armed Germany and a quarter-or half-armed British Empire. We have not done so badly...
...anxious to get rid of Congress as Congress was anxious to leave was Capitol Architect David Lynn. Since 1938, Architect Lynn has been expecting the Capitol roofs to fall in. The 120-ton ceiling over the House, the 90-ton ceiling over the Senate, constructed of ornamental glass and wrought iron, hang from cast-iron trusses. Tests have shown that some of the trusses have shifted as much as an inch and a half under the stress of snows, winds, years...
...Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...
Needless to say, sabotage is a threat. Should construction work fall into the hands of a foreign power, havoc could be wrought behind the fences. By an ingenious system of tunnels, Widener could be drained of every learned periodical this side of the Reading Room. Then, too, the workers in charge might run berserk in their lonely isolation behind the fences and, from force of habit, rear another Weld or Matthews...
...ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest book, "Chart for Rough Water", he takes the stand for which undergraduates are accused of being faithless and skeptical, and says, "We must try, it seems to me plain...