Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Christmas a Captain of the U. S. A. Engineers Corps, who came down here to build the Nicaraguan Canal, but got married instead, sent me a year's subscription to TIME, as a Christmas present. I thought it about the best news periodical I had ever seen, but after reading some of the crank letters you print I think I should engage some of the writers to show you how to run your magazine. The only complaint I have is misleading advertising...
...become a lofty pinnacle. With blaring bands, solemn chanting, clockwork goose-stepping and dramatic searchlight and spotlight work, Adolf Hitler was made to appear more than ever what in fact he is-the Teuton Messiah. He had a Message this year bolder than ever before. In the final build-up of tense emotion, 400 new German heavy bombers and fighting aircraft of all sorts literally darkened the sky above Nürnberg, made windows rattle with the bellow of their motors and brought gulps to German throats. Then, with every radio station in the Fatherland broadcasting his words, with every...
...required 300 years to build a fence around the Yard, but the job was finally finished last month when the last sections of iron pickets were placed in their brick pillars and the 3,700 feet circumference of the Yard enclosed in a permanent fence...
This was a new version. I remembered that John Eliot had translated the Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...
...this industry is given encouragement, we can look to it to be of great help to us if, when the republic is proclaimed, we should lose some or all of our trade privileges. The industry will then tide us over until we can develop new markets or build new industries...