Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friday evening. As could be expected of a largely amateur group, the orchestra played with no great precision of intonation, steadiness of rhythm, or clearness of entrance. But its real sin lay deeper. The performances lacked life, and so the structures of sound which the group was trying to build often sagged and even tumbled...
Steelmen are in a good position to boost prices. With furnaces operating at better than 100% of capacity, they have more orders on their books than they can handle. Detroit's automakers alone will need enough steel to build an estimated 6,500,000 new cars in 1957, are already cranking up to top production speed. After a two-month lull for model changeover, the auto industry is working overtime to build 38 new cars each minute, plans to work overtime and Saturdays throughout November and December to keep pace with optimistic forecasts of fourth-quarter business...
...Sept. 24), set off an outcry in the press. The Laborite Daily Herald found "experts" who called it an "amazing and stupid decision." Other papers sadly agreed that the decision was inevitable, since Britain has 'ho comparable jetliners, but angrily demanded to know what is being done to build them. Said the News Chronicle: "Things would be much better if there were signs that a British jetliner capable of crossing the Atlantic in one hop was on the stocks...
Ultimately, the University has no alternative but to support the fraternity system, if only because of the housing it provides for undergraduate men. While trying to build new dormitories, it has scant hope for much advance in this line...
Such a trust, Adlai Stevenson is today charging, was placed on General Eisenhower in 1952, when the nation sent him to the White House with the largest popular vote in the country's history. But instead of using his popularity to sweep away McCarthyism, or to build needed schools, or to speed up the process of integration, Eisenhower has often tried to maintain personal popularity. The President's silence has left the nation devoid of inspired direction where a constructive, carefully formulated public opinion is most vital...