Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead...
...industrial court, of last resort, to which the Minister of Labor may refer deadlocked cases if both sides consent. Its findings are not binding unless both sides agree to that in advance. It writes no opinions, for neither employers nor employes wish to build a body of industrial case...
...kindling is transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...
...Chicago delegation, biggest at the convention, came determined to squelch the left-wing New York local. But no squelching was done. Opening the meeting, President Jerome Davis earnestly pleaded: "One of the greatest tasks confronting our federation is how to build unity with all the forces that are opposing dictatorship and fascism. We must do our utmost to make unity the keynote of our present convention." The rest of the 500 delegates proceeded to support Chicago's resolutions, condemn the Kelly-Nash machine's "interference" with Chicago's schools, elect two Chicagoans to the executive council. They...
Their first months were a struggle to build a dining room and studio, whose modernistic design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...