Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told Scientist Peter Kapitza to "build whatever you need" for basic atomic research...
Last week Harvard got a letter from one of its better-heeled alumni, Morgan board chairman Thomas W. Lament, '92. "Dear Mr. Conant," it read, "I have this day delivered to your treasurer securities with a marketable value of $1,500,000 ... to enable Harvard to build the undergraduate library that you tell me [it] needs. My own gratitude to Harvard is unbounded, and the sense of exhilaration and stimulus that the college gave my undergraduate years is as vivid today as it was a half-century...
Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, whose ample baseball earnings (top: $70,000 in 1928), judiciously invested in Coca-Cola stock, have made him rich, gave $250,000 to build and endow a hospital in Royston, Ga., his birthplace...
More serious loss to plantation owners is the labor needed to produce the prewar peak of 1.3 million tons. The Japs rounded up thousands of natives, sent them into Burma to build airstrips and military roads. More than half, said Cake, are believed to have died from ill-treatment. He estimated that it would take three to five years to get production back to normal...
What they seem to like is what Earl Wilson calls the three Bs-Booze, Busts, Behinds. (Sample Wilson leer: Carole Landis looks "like a chiffonier with its top drawer pulled out." Of another buxom girl, he wrote: "only a build in a girdled cage.") What his readers also get, every so often, is some of the most accurately recorded Broadway-and-Sports Americana since the late great Ring Lardner...