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Word: builded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hail, congratulations and credit to Boatbuilder Liiders. TIME'S account was focused, however, on the newsworthy fact that the U. S. Navy has decided to build another type boat (54-foot and 70-foot "mosquitoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...TIME taken in by the Garner build-up when it reported (March 20, p. 13) that "he has recently built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more"? I understand that FHA does not build houses, merely insures mortgages on them. ... All of which is no reflection on the Sage of Uvalde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Although "FHA houses" has come to be a legitimate, if loose, expression, Reader Walkeen is correct: FHA does not build houses, simply insures mortgages on houses built to its speciftions. Garner partisans say his houses are cheaper, FHA partisans say FHA houses are much better built. Mr. Garner, as is his custom, says nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Messiah. Fundamental Hitler nature is Austrian-mild, appreciative of beauty and art, sentimental, loving display. But long ago his chief underlings went vigorously to work to build a higher and higher pedestal under him. His contacts with common life around him have become more and more remote so that he has come to accept himself as a Messiah. So surrounded is he by adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Philadelphia's Derhams are three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Expensive Bodies | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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