Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Wilbur of the navy seems to regard was as a great big game to keep the boys out of mischief. He says, "We feel that we can build ships that are worthy of the young men from all parts of the country who man them, and to enable them to compete on at least equal terms with the best equipment furnished to any other service. 105,000,000 dollars is a great deal though, to pay for ten floating gymnasia; it completely beggars the paltry thousands it costs to take the Harvard football team to New Haven...
...find that upper classmen seem to have any real design for such tables this year, we may build the hall. It is true that the Freshmen have asked for such a hall, but we are not convinced that this expression fully states their feelings as they will become when they are upper classmen...
...Statesmen will know how best to assemble all the national forces. They will build a wall around my throne to impose respect for my decisions and acts, for I have acted according to the laws and supreme interests of the monarchy and State." (Unquestionably this affirms His Majesty's dependence upon Jon Bratiano and his family of whom the next most potent is Vintila Bratiano, sly brother of Jon.) Opposition Squelched. Though the Fascist Army leaders remained an uncertain quantity in the possibility of a coup for Carol, the political (Carolist) Opposition headed by Professor Jorga appeared thoroughly squelched...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed; 'The only corners I know of in Baldwin are the four corners on every Baldwin stock certificate.' I was wrong, for Arthur W. Cutten, quiet calculator in Chicago, had built a corner in Baldwin. Newspapers reputed his profits...