Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports of a new dormitory to be built on De Wolfe Street, which will be furnished with a sybaritic luxury and offer the conveniences of porters, servants and breakfasts in bed, recalls the sterner way in which our academic forbears lived at Harvard three centuries...
When the College first began, the whole life of the community was centered under one roof. In this single building the students lodged, ate, recited and attended divine worship. The building was built of unseasoned lumber, which as it aged, warped and necessitated that the walls be caulked with mud, which frequently proved but poor protection against the rigors of a New England winter...
These are situations which may mean much or nothing. To some, they will seem but flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...
...Therefore Washington proposes reduction of light armaments, with the double motive of gaining the support of Great Britain and staving off danger from Japan until the Nicaraguan Canal shall be built...
Died. Benjamin Franklin Smith, 96, perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down...