Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of the Medical School Society has been built upon three pillars Information, Recreation and Education...
Last week, the elders of Merion having decided to allow a row of cheap houses to be built near this park, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, president of the foundation that owns park, art and building, threatened to move the pictures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, or wherever else they might be properly appreciated, and to fill the limestone edifice with Negroes in the process of being cultivated. The elders of Merion reconsidered their longing for a row of cheap houses...
...Connecticut farmhouse, Inventor Arthur S. Ford, a comfortably built man with a generous mustache, played with a paintbrush and window screen. Filling up the wire squares with paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is far simpler than telephotography. Telephotography requires costly apparatus to transform pictures into...
...such staples are less in demand one month than another, the fripperies, on the other hand, may well serve to keep the woll from the owner's Italio-Greco-Romanesque facade. The Advocate has profited by by this axiom of the trade, and in the last two years has built up a study skeleton of departments--editorials, book-reviews, the special article, and the rest that insures a certain variety to any issue, whatever the quality of the accidental "contributions" may be. As your reviewer galloped through the April number of the Advocate, the track, in the main, seemed...
...deemed his Provincetown Players a failure when they were an obvious success and was for beginning afresh on his ideal of a community playhouse. But he was 48 and Greece had called him since he was 16. They went. He built huts for them on Parnassos, shared his "drunkenly Greek" mind with the shepherds, revived Socratic dialogs beside the Acropolis, relived his whole life, by memory and poetry, garbed as a Delphic shepherd. He died there (1924) of glanders contracted by nursing a stray puppy...