Word: builded
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...cost of slightly over $1 million, provided by the Program for Harvard College, the Division of Modern Languages acquired a language center comparable to any in America. "There had been some pressure to tear the building down," Harry T. Levin, chairman of the Division, explains. "However, by saving the shell and reconstructing the entire interior, rather than building a whole new structure the University saved at least $800,000"--an important factor in this period of continually rising costs. Its convenient location on the main pathway between the Houses and the Yard close to Widener helped clinch the decision...
...ersatz confirmations hit an 80%-go% high last spring, and some East German congregations celebrated no Christian confirmations at all. Fewer and fewer children are signing up for the voluntary school program of religious education. Economic discrimination against Christians has not abated, and Red bureaucrats systematically hinder efforts to build new churches and repair old ones. In Saxony alone, 50 churches were condemned as unsafe since the war while the state withheld permission for repairs...
Power & Ruthlessness. The history of the House of Morgan is almost the story of U.S. banking. Founder J. Pierpont Morgan was a great builder and dreamer who helped build the U.S.-and grew so powerful that he helped run it. Morgan left his father's London banking firm at 20 to try his own luck on Wall Street. After acting as agent for his father's firm, he went into business for himself under the name of J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. He performed dazzling feats of finance one after another. His method was to buy control of banks...
...Ears. The family skated on the edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped...
...support goes to the CCA as a whole; individuals within Harvard provide overt support. Major public support must thus come from the individuals, lest it seems the institution is trying to control City Hall. If the Cambridge electorate feels Harvard is trying to control it, the University will never build a good working relationship...