Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome man, still dark-haired and active for his years. He had worked hard all his life, and from his savings bought a rare farm possession for Greece, a tractor-drawn combine. With it he had made enough money to educate his eldest son Anastasios, 22, and to build up respectable dowries for his four pretty daughters...
Because of the children, Clingman agreed to stay for a year. He organized Saturday sports-soccer, football, baseball. Other boys began coming, sons of gardeners, or "river rats" who fish for a living. The children brought their parents, helped build the congregation up to its present 210, with a healthier cross section of rich and poor...
...look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised and aid the neighbor in his need. Do not boast that you have built churches and endowed masses. God will say: 'What to me are your churches and masses? . . . Who told you to build churches? I have set before you spiritual temples...
...copying the human brain, says Professor Wiener, man is learning how to build better calculating machines. And the more he learns about calculators, the better he understands the brain. The cyberneticists are like explorers pushing into a new country and finding that nature, by constructing the human brain, pioneered there before them...
...C.I.O.'s case was made by chesty, talky Economist Stanley Ruttenberg, and it was a muddled one. Ruttenberg first accused businessmen of failing to expand production, then he accused them of hoarding earnings to expand and build up monopolistic enterprises. He castigated steel companies for putting away earnings as reserves against a depression, saying: "This is an extremely dangerous attitude for American industry to take." Ruttenberg's cureall: an all-out attack on "monopoly" by slapping on excess profits and undistributed profits taxes...