Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great universities are in the Middle West and Far West. This came about through John D. Rockefeller's building the University of Chicago and maintaining it as a standard for educational institutions. The great South has no such school. If there were one, the competition would probably transform the intellectual history of that section as it has in the Middle West...
...last Plan-plank the radical new President attaches major importance. "'Our Six-Year Plan is to transform and replace Capitalism!" Candidate Cárdenas shouted in speech after speech. From the Plan he quoted many a pledge such as this: "The supply of electric energy shall be reduced in price so as to enable industrial production to live through electrical energy and not for electrical energy...
...utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When I and weak, then am I strong." This ideal changed slaves into masters, cowards, and weaklings into heroes, bad men into saints and martyrs. It can and will transform the world again. Charles Hooper...
...cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies or a glimpse of Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is an even better example of the new school ne'er-do-well. All that it requires to transform him from a night-club chiseler to gentleman farmer is a whiff of Dutchess County applejack and five reels of Mau reen O'Sullivan...