Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor G. P. Baker '87, and the removal of the 47 Workshop from Cambridge to New Haven did not, contrary to a widespread belief, mean the end of all serious dramatic activities at Harvard. There still remains an organization which, though young when compared with the Workshop, has built up for itself a solid and worthy reputation...
...control of Peking, notoriously follow his example of ruthless and inhuman cruelty upon slight provocation. Last week one of Chang's lieutenants demanded a "contribution" from a Chinese merchant resident in the suburbs of Peking. The merchant refused. The soldiers brought a cauldron of oil, built a fire beneath it, seized and stripped one of the merchant's daughters, boiled her to death...
...notables gathered to watch the launching of the cruiser Kinugasa last week at Kobe, spoke with feeling of great Admiral Togo, now 78, who lay at that moment ill-and perhaps dying- in the modest house which he occupies in a suburb of Tokyo. The fleet has been built up by men like Admiral Togo, samurai ("military nobles") who went to England in their youth, drank at the authentic font of naval lore, and came home to instruct and inspire their countrymen. Japan requires a navy now as never before. The European nations, emerging from their mutual war preoccupation, will...
...shares to his nephew. Henry Edwards Huntington, the nephew, was not, in the conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways). He made about a hundred million dollars. He said he would retire at 60. That age loomed in his life like a pillar at a boundary, dividing the world of business from that other...
...birthday did he make his first solo flight, but for six years prior he had ridden in planes over California to point out that great state's scenic wonders to tourists. His three sons are commercial pilots, one of them having won a transcontinental race in a plane built entirely by his parent...