Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Comte de Broqueville continued: "Belgium would be helpless before another German invasion. . . . The weakness of our present frontier is notorious. . . . The Government must regretfully propose the construction as rapidly as possible of a system of fortresses built on entirely new lines to resist the impact of modern war machinery...
...Singing honors went to tall Lawrence Tibbett. He came to fame two years ago with a sensational "Falstaff" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Upon that beginning, critics said warmly, he has built very soundly...
...Percenters. The Ford company paid 100% and more dividends for years. Mr. Prentiss cited two other 100 percenters- Timken Brothers who in 1901 built a $100,000 steel mill at St. Louis; Sterling Products Co. of Wheeling, W. Va., makers of Castoria and Dr. Caldwell's Syrup of Pepsin and other proprietary medicines that give yearly profits of $2,500,000. Ford Credit. "I'd say that the Ford Motor Car Co. as a credit proposition equals the United States Steel Corp., the Standard Oil Co., General Electric arid General Motors."-Mr. Prentiss...
...rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt, 70, dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie...
...Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well. It was as a result of this custom that the Christians built the Catacombs to receive the bodies...