Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Chamber of Commerce and the mayor of Colorado Springs, which lies on the plain below Pikes Peak, uncorked a magnificent scheme to build a tomb for Zeb Pike on the mountaintop he never reached. Colorado papers, scent ing another tourist attraction, played the story big; the Colorado delegation in Congress whooped it up. Said a Chamber of Commerce official: "If we can just get old Zeb and add him to the rest of the stuff we got here, it'll mean millions, boy, millions...
...Super State. Through the Panama conference in 1826 Bolivar had tried in vain to build a league against the despotism of the Old World. Sixty-three years later U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...
...mothers that worked for Dr. Calvin P. Stone of Stanford did not have so pleasant a time. He gave electroconvulsive shocks to recently bred females. Some produced young, but did not know what to do next. The shake-up apparently destroyed their instinctive knowledge of how to build nests or suckle their infants. They "exhibited no maternal behavior," and acted as if the whole thing had been a dream...
Edward F. Burke '50, chairman of the Extra-curricular Activities Committee, announced yesterday that sub-groups will open a four-front drive next fall to build up and increase participation in undergraduate organizations...
...hard enough to build up a reputation for yourself, but it's a lot harder to keep it." So says Bert Haines, who consistently turns out championship 150-pound crows for the Crimson and who tomorrow starts shooting for his third straight undefeated season when his charges hit the River Charles against M.I.T...