Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly Marcel Leopold made plenty of enemies too. Finding the methodical business world of his native Switzerland too tame, Leopold went to China in the '30s to try his hand at turning a quick yen. As a big-time race-track and gambling operator, he made enough to build himself a skyscraper in Tientsin, and when the Communists took over, he was tough enough to endure 2½ years in a Red jail before they extracted all his profits...
Judo, Anyone? Racial tension began to build up in Toledo (pop. 330,000) after the teen-age daughter of a Lutheran minister told police that she had been raped by three Negroes. While the Blade story said merely that the girl had been attacked by "three boys," newscasts on all of Toledo's TV and radio stations except WTOL repeatedly identified the rapists as Negroes. After its home edition was delivered, the Blade was besieged with telephone calls accusing it of coddling Negroes...
...their evangelistic campaign to build a Christian community across the U.S. from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Protestant churches of the 19th century used the denominational college as an intellectual stronghold. By the Civil War era, the churches had founded some 40 colleges in Ohio alone, to ensure for the state a Christian core and to train the ministers who plodded after the frontiersmen across the plains...
Another possibility lies in the construction of multilevel garages, but the Development Company estimated that these would cost about $2,300 per car space to build...
That is how a young Rio Grande riverboat captain named Richard King braced a stranger in Brownsville, Texas in 1850. "Back in Owensboro, Kentucky, sir," replied the stranger, "I was treasurer of the Methodist Church. I raised the money to build a new church house. Well-that church was never built-and here I am in Texas. Now, Captain King, which category do you come under...