Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inexperienced in the ways of realty, he built houses in Virginia, tried to sell them when the market was glutted, and went $100,000 in the hole. But he managed to convince subcontractors that they would get their money, then borrowed $700,000 to build an apartment house in Arlington, Va. This time he hit pay dirt, and in nine months realized a $200,000 profit. As the Government grew and the housing demand picked up, Wolman's fortunes soared. Just 16 years after arriving in Washington, he was worth $35 million, on paper. His real estate holdings stretched...
Harvard Student Agencies is hoping to buy or build its own office building within the next five years...
Last May, the MBTA announced that it planned to adopt the so-called "Scheme D" for its extension up Massachusetts Avenue. Under this plan, it would build an expanded Harvard Square Station, to be located under the Avenue, parallel to Strauss and Lionel Halls...
...think the magazine plans to print anything," Peretz said. It's a rehash--badly written and boring. I would be upset in one of these left-wing gumshoe operations. I don't want right-wingers to build a window into my soul, and I don't want to do it into theirs either...
...deal as best they could with Celtic chaos, superstition and the flickering light of Christianity. Modern Nigerians oppressed by a feeling of culture lag may optimistically reflect that the natives of Britain had in their future a Shakespeare, a St. Paul's Cathedral, and the will to build empires of their...