Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his first job at Big Lick was to change a dispirited collection of families into a community of men&women. Their center would be the church. He started with the young folks-dances, socials, and "singing games." Then he set out to build his church...
...view of all these facts, how can Harvard University obtain, or even have the gall to ask, leave to raise its rents? Can it be that Harvard-already one of the most expensive schools in the country-is trying to build up its reputation as a rich man's college and thus eliminate the average discharged G. I. who can't afford the luxury of a $75 a month suite? My roommate is far more eloquent on the subject than am I, but unfortunately I cannot quote him in writing for possible publication except in essence when his remarks translate...
Although doctors in last-ditch starvation cases have resorted to synthesized remedies (amino acids, concentrated vitamins, blood plasma), the best cure for malnutrition is food, and plenty of it.* A build-up diet of simple foods such as cereals, cabbage, and potatoes ( most likely to be available after near-famine) will do the trick if the daily caloric rate attains or exceeds 4,000. Even then, the road back is long...
...last week was preparing to celebrate the automobile industry's golden jubilee (see cut), General Motors too was gestating, planned to bring forth a low-priced Chevrolet. The newly formed Chevrolet Light Car Division asked the Civilian Production Administration for authority to erect two factories near Cleveland to build its new product. It hoped to be in production by the middle of 1947, kept mum on specifications and price. Quietest of all: the Chrysler Corp., whose plans for a light car were still only a Motor City rumor...
Britain was not going to use its cars for weekends in the country: it was going to export most of them to build up its sagging foreign-trade balances. So Laborites and Conservatives found common cause for crying...