Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...build it up again...
...tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
Sentiment may attribute the passing of Memorial Hall to the decadence of the present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall...
...deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape Town to die, to build into the empire the colony that bears his name...
...months ending Oct. 1. Of late, they say, Mr. Curtis' motto that "nothing succeeds like success" has begun to justify itself. Since October, the figure has jumped to 38,000 and the Post "has utterly outgrown its present quarters." It has bought a city lot. It will build a spacious new mansion. It "will not keep its readers and its advertisers waiting a single moment longer than it must for the larger and better product it will be able to create in its own specially planned building...