Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressed surprise, and said that I supposed President Masaryk and Foreign Minister Benes, tho 'Allah and his Prophet who founded and built up (TIME, May 5, 1923; June 28, 1926) the Czechoslovakian republic after the War, were so revered by the people that any cabinet of which M. Benes was a member would be stable. I was told that M. Masaryk and M. Benes are indeed above all parties; and that M. Benes would certainly continue as Foreign Minister in the new cabinet; but that it was considered necessary to find a new premier about whom the newly representative...
...years old, has been "practicing" for 44 years. The Keokuk (Iowa) College of Physicians & Surgeons gave him his diploma in 1881. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1897, 29 years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent Liar...
...been located by R. C. Burrell '24, their advance agent. They use a collapsible stage, designed by Mr. Cheney, the owner of the company. This stage is fitted on a specially constructed Ford chassis, and can be unfolded quickly at each stopping place. A very elaborate lighting plant is built on another truck...
There are 11 houses, built in a continuous row, containing a total of 43 apartments...
...Story.* Sometimes, in a small U. S. town, even in no town at all, you come upon a great house alone in its grandeur. It will have been built by some man whose intensity raised him above his fellows to the position and estate demanded by an acquisitive nature. If the house is still owned by relations of the builder, you may not see in them many traces of the old blood. But should you find the builder's kin elsewhere, and fallen on hard days, mark how often some intensity of the old blood will have been...