Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human family is guided best by individuals not seeking power and the glow of self-importance. So let us still continue our method of developing geniuses where experience and environment build thoughts and ideas?which hardly can be created in a cold superchamber of the "intelligentsia," so-called. There will always be a varied group of humans?and to suppress the egotistical and so-called dictators is pleasant game for the masses or "rabble." Germany and its Aryan and non-Aryan idea is an excellent example of trying to place human beings on the 10¢ and $1 shelf...
...other white powers in the Orient, that the Philippines shall not become a sort of Asiatic Balkans after 1946, when the U. S. flag comes down for the last time, the Islands are patently in need of a secure military defense system. To build it, Manuel Quezon on his last trip to Washington secured the services of the biggest military man in the U. S. ? General Douglas MacArthur. Last week, after the longest leadership of the U. S. Army in history, General MacArthur announced his resignation as Chief of Staff, packed his elegant duffel to sail for Manila...
...three knots faster than their British peers and much better equipped with anti-aircraft guns. After running the long gamut from submarines to capital ships and pulling a long face the whole way, Dr. Parkes comfortably quoted a remark made to him by a distinguished British admiral: "The Italians build better ships than they can fight...
...late Horace H. Rackham directed his trustees to favor Michigan charity and education. Michigan was worried when the Rackham Trustees went outside the State to bestow $50,000 on the Warm Springs Foundation. But last week these same trustees dutifully endowed the home University with $5,000,000 to build up its graduate school...
...gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes) to seat 3,000, had the biggest Scoreboard in the world erected at the end of the field, advertised in the newspapers. The experiment turned out well, made enough money for Promoter Bostwick to build a club room and bar for the newspaper men who report his games, to put up additional stands to seat 5,000. This year has been even more successful than last, and polo bigwigs, who were at first inclined to consider the idea undignified, have also capitulated to popularizing polo. Tommy...