Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Edgell, in his article published by the CRIMSON today, makes the same point as that around which Professor Robert Morss Lovett of Chicago University built in his recent article in the New York Times on the college undergraduate. "A generation ago," says Professor Edgell, "I should have regarded the experiment as suicidal. Nowadays, however, it seems to me that undergraduates are far more mature and on the whole do their work in the same matter of fact way that grown men do their work in business or the professions...
...high Renaissance whose canvasses later influenced the style of Michel Angelo, it was made public yesterday. The masterpiece will be exhibited at the opening of the new Fogg Museum of Art on next Monday, and will remain there throughout the summer months, while the new Yale Museum is being built...
Then spoke Secretary Dwight F. Davis, who said he came at the request of the President and to indicate the Administration's sympathy with flood sufferers. "The Mississippi can and must be controlled," said Secretary Davis. "The nation whose engineers built the Panama Canal despite seemingly insuperable obstacles can solve the . . . problem of flood control." He added that the solution was a matter for the next session of Congress to determine...
...Comfortably-built Christopher Morley lately spoke, on his "Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature, of "two stout, elderly, ruddy nabobs . . . the two rotund conductors, Tweedledum and Tweedledee" whom he, during a Chicago-to-New York trip on the Century, saw conferring on the LaSalle Street and Elkhart, Ind., platforms. N. Y. Central men are agreed that Mr. Morley must have seen Conductors Hendrix and Jefferey, of whom only one, however, might be called stout, rotund? Conductor Jefferey. (Conductor Lund may have been Tweedledee to Conductor Jefferey's Tweedledum; he is heavier than Conductor Hendrix. But between Conductors Lund...
...young Thomas F. Manville Jr. and his sister Lorraine for cabarets, footlights, chorus girls and comedians, predicted a business event of last week-the passage of the H. S. Johns-Manville Co. of Manhattan, $32,000,000 manufacturer of asbestos and magnesia products, from the family that has built it up since 1858 to bankers who will run it now that there are no suitable Manvilles left...