Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finances?" she asked herself; then with soundness, thoroughness, detail (while people thought of her great father), answered the question. Thunderous applause resounded as she concluded her speech. The clubhouse was as good as built...
...engineers of the Holland vehicular tunnel, connecting Manhattan & New Jersey (TIME, Aug. 30), held a "smoker" last week. They exploded smoke bombs in the cavern they had built, far under the Hudson River, to produce a volume of fumes equivalent to that which would be caused if an automobile burned up on its way through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem...
...been holding its sessions in it, having been driven out of Boston on account of a smallpox epidemic. The Province of Massachusetts, therefore, provided for the erection of a new building from the plans of Governor Bernard. The new building, which is the one still standing today, was built in 1765-67 at a cost...
...Yorkers. Edyth Totten is high priestess of a special cult of suburban ladies who have taken up the drama in a serious, contemplative way. With their conscientious contributions she has built her own theatre. Consequently there is no stopping her. Last week, she presented a semiprofessional revue with professional intentions. The ensuing embarrassment only went to prove again that these things should be left to experienced hands...
...Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which she had built up from 1,500 to 73,000 circulation...