Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock and building material, guarded by Chilean soldiers and given an opportunity to test out their "Red" theories in a colony built by themselves...
...learn more about scientific farming. He stayed in this country until 1923 when he was asked to return to Finland in order to coach the Olympic Team which was to take part in the 1924 games. This he did, and with his former team as a base he built up a squad which was destined to tie America for the first and only time in the number of first places taken. Nine firsts went to the Fins and nine to the Americans...
...this year War Minister Leon Trotzky had built up the "Red Army" sufficiently to harass and wear down the "White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
Metropolis. Ufa, German creators of the masterpieces, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Variety, have released what they herald as their supreme achievement, Metropolis. It is the name of a futuristic city, built on a gargantuan iron skeleton, with whole communities superimposed upon one another in prismatic vastnesses-the dwelling-place of men who live to slave for their own machines...
...Built in 1876 its first owner was probably Anna L. Mooring. Instead of willing it to the University as was expected, on her death she bequeathed it to the Massachusetts Homeophatic Hospital, which organization administered it for many years. After some time it was bought by a group of Harvard graduates and in 1907 it again changed hands finally to wind up in 1924 in the hands of Samuel Lebowitch, who threatened to tear the building down. C. C. Stillman '98 acquired it in the same year and on his death last summer the executors, in order to settle...