Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time a dump-pile. Her girls cleared away the rubbish to give the-workmen room. In 1905 the school was chartered. In 1914 Mrs. Bethune bought a farm to "teach the girls sense," and to raise vegetables for the table. By 1918 people had given enough money to build an auditorium. Later Governor Catts of Florida and Vice President Coolidge spoke at the dedication. A knowledge of these things added interest, for the clubwomen, to the competent, slow speech of Mrs. Bethune. And she further interested them because, with her big comfortable body, big lips, slow voice, wise eyes...
Modestly, Bacteriologist James C. Small of the Philadelphia General Hospital told Director Wilmer Krusen of the Philadelphia Public Health Department that he had isolated a new, minute organism (Streptococcus cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
...President then conjured up at length the investments of U. S. citizens in Nicaragua and the right purchased by the U. S. for $3,000,- 000 to build an inter-ocean canal across Nicaragua...
...Highness may be a genius of the first water, but he sets an alarming precedent for those nations still governed by a sovereign. There is no limit to the amount of poetry a prince might have published, to be sold to all loyal subjects at a price sufficient to build a couple of battleships. For those of ample means, however, this would be a small matter; the real menace of that the royal author might command his books to be read. A revolution among the educated classes would probably follow such a decree...
...friends in activities from oil speculation to running newspapers; later he became an investment banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before, but Mr. Davis was an inspired Moose. Believing that "a boy who knows how to build concrete houses will not have to sleep in haystacks," he was the founding spirit of Mooseheart-famed colony, 37 miles west of Chicago, where boys and girls are 'prepared for life" and graduated at 18. A thousand orphans (together with about 100 widowed mothers and their children) live there...