Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Viscount Minoru Saito, Chief Japanese Delegate, accordingly did little more throughout the Parley than to make well-meant efforts to draw the U. S. and British delegations together on some common ground (for example, his idea of a "naval holiday" during which no more ships would be built by any power...
...golf course is built. Summer homes grow up around it. Parents take up the game, turning their offspring loose to paddle for themselves?until some of the offspring (Alexa Stirling, Perry Adair, Rob Jones) can beat the parents. Then comes the problem of developing young talent without letting it become infant-prodigious. Rob Jones's paternal grandfather refused, even when discovered in galleries, to admit to any interest in the 13-year-old club champion, the 14-year-old state champion or the 15-year-old Southern chaimpion. Not until 1923 when Jones Jr. was 21 and about...
...ever be able to distinguish them from the blue sky above is another question. As a matter of fact they are so high now that they are beyond his low line of vision and have floated there since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. nay since Abel built his altar which was sometime...
Water. Because it is everywhere, its properties are taken for granted and, from them, much of the structure of theoretical chemistry has been built up. But water is actually most mysterious, should be studied, said Dean James Kennell of New York University. He reminded his audience that in a world where the active constituent of the atmosphere was hydrogen instead of oxygen, fires would be extinguished, not by throwing on water, but by some hydrocarbon such as gasoline...
...married Una Call Kuster in 1913. They have twin boys. Lean, athletic, needing solitude, he built a house of sea-boulders on a headland near Carmel, Calif. Falcons nested in his tower of "hawk-perch" stones. Some years ago he offered Tamar and Other Poems to Manhattan publishers but only an obscure Irish printer, Peter G. Boyle, would risk handling such inflammable material as a tragedy of incest (TIME, March 30, 1925). Reviews soon brought him to a notice for which he has small regard but which must become, despite the book world's busy piddlings, nationwide and perpetual...