Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Me in December as You Do in May?" He wrote it for a show that failed, but he married the understudy of the leading lady, and the song made a hit; so his royalties were satisfactory. He had also a job with a subway company that did not build a subway. Then a very efficient political boss gave him a job in the state legislature, which he held for quite a time...
...decides to build a new capital. In the swamps of the Neva it rises. It costs in lives 10,000 horses, 100,000 men. As Peter takes possession, the Swedes attack. Peter beats them at Poltawa and they flee to the Turks. Peter follows, is surrounded, nearly annihilated. Then he and Katharina overcome their enemies. Livonia, Esthonia, Ingria, Karelia. the Ukraine are Peter's. Sweden, Poland, Turkey are humbled...
...holiday slumbers (TIME, Dec. 7) do not number among them August Heckscher, philanthropist. Moved to characteristic benignancy by Mr. Rockefeller's carillon, Mr. Heckscher made a proposal to the Mayor of New York. He would like to give a carillon to the city. Indeed, if the city would build a tower for the purpose in Central Park, he would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility and beauty of tone of the music pealing from a carillon must be heard to be appreciated. No other sounds, however attuned, can, in inclosed spaces such as chapels, churches and cathedrals...
...more squash courts, a swimming pool, a new gymnasium. The Association has already provided many more squash courts than there are at any other university in the country, and expects to provide more. For nearly three years I have been trying to get permission from the Corporation to build a swimming pool, and I am happy to say that there now seems to be some prospect of immediate action on this proposal. I have presented to the Corporation a plan by which I thought a new gymnasium might become possible in the near future. In addition we now operate more...
...Colonel's daughter, the son of a small farmer and fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their...