Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous Washington, D.C. lawyer, Wilkinson proposed a plan that was exactly the same as one he had advocated while editor of the student paper. "The way to build this university," said he in 1921, "is to use the machinery of the Mormon Church." As president, he persuaded Mormon leaders to shower the university with money. He also persuaded them to tell the church's stakes, wards and missions" to send him their brightest boys and girls. In some quarters, his brisk way of doing things earned him the title of "Little Napoleon." To others he was "the Little Dynamo...
...Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and stayed to open up the whole Belgian Congo for King Leopold II. Through the doors opened by the explorers came a stream of colonizers and empire builders like Cecil Rhodes, bringing with them armies of semiskilled labor from India to help build today's Middle Africa, and to complicate its racial patterns...
...bachelor pavilion in Lake Wales, Fla. designed by Architect Mark Hampton for an atmosphere of elegant privacy and relaxation. The house, which cost an estimated $40,000 to build, is in effect a single room composed of "freestanding circles in a rectangle," with the kitchen and bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled...
Quality v. Quantity. In San Francisco builders who concentrated on $12,000 to $15,000 houses in 1955 are building and selling $18,000 to $30,000 houses this year. A Seattle builder is busy with a 75-house development ($25,000 and up), is selling to families who lived in $15,000 homes a few years ago. One Dallas builder has made 72 sales of $22,000 houses since Easter. In Atlanta, where overall building is down 30%, builders of $25,000 houses are selling all they can build; some report a waiting list of customers...
Ordway presented a plaque listing those former editors who "had vision and faith to build, on land provided by the University, this home to the dignity of Harvard letters and their Mother Advocate on her ninetieth anniversary...