Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Day. The classic Communist plot begins, formally, with an announcement that anti-Communist parties have been caught in a conspiracy with foreign powers. The interval between this announcement and complete Communist victory took seven months in Rumania, five in Hungary, four in Bulgaria. In Czechoslovakia, after a clever build-up (TIME, March 1) which forced the resignation of twelve anti-Communist cabinet members, the crisis proper took only a week...
About the only practice the polo team gets at present is a canter on a riding academy animal or a survey of the feats and tactics of the powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...
...LeCorbeiller has used his knowlege of philosophy calculus, bridge-building, and all kinds of things, to build up his thesis and one faculty associate of his was recently forced to admit, "We don't all go along with him on his fundamental thesis, but the reasoning is brilliant...
...Walt & Welt's home designing on a mass production basis. They put up housing for 50,000 workers in California's mushrooming war industries, and soon they had 83 assistants working for them. "It was spit and matchstick stuff," Wurdeman says, "but it made us build a big organization and got us so we weren't appalled at big jobs...
...While we regret the Committee's premise that sufficient funds cannot now be raised to build an entirely new Activities Center, we applaud their recognition of the vital role which an auditorium and extra-curriculum facilities can play in the life of the University. We join them in hoping that a truly significant memorial can be designed within the terms of reference which they have...