Word: built
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Richardson, probably the first great genius among American architects, built twin houses on La Fayette Square in Washington, D. C. One was the home of Henry Adams, historian, man of letters; in the other lived John Hay, statesman. Mr. Hay became Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, then Secretary of State under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt. Imperceptibly, inevitably, the salon appeared. Henry Adams and John LaFarge would come in, chattering feverishly about the sculpture of Augustus St. Gaudens; Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge would play "a game in which they were always liable to find...
...steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
...which he employed effectively against Carpentier and Tom Gibbons. The men he had beaten before that were second raters: Herbert Crowely, Martin Burke, Wolfe Larson, Jack Ambrose, Eddie O'Hara, Whitey Meuzel, Fay Reiser. He did very well against them, this mild marine. A handsome lightheavy-weight, well-built but not particularly strong, intelligent but not brutal...
...rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra cost; new braking system built by Timken; free "indemnity against loss of use resulting from theft." Fred E. Moskovicz, active, able president of Stutz Motor Car Co., returned from Europe last week. His weightiest statement was that his French consulting engineer and agent, Signor Bugatti, "the greatest automobile engineer in Europe," will produce a car twice...
...sold them to housewives. He noticed that people in apartment houses ate more sausages than other people. (The reason was simple-it saved cooking.) He noticed also that more and more apartment houses were being built, and putting two and two together he decided that an increasing number of sausages was going to be eaten in Brooklyn in the next thirty-five years. He started a sausage factory. The business grew to include not merely sausages but the whole line of delicatessen products. Today the name, "Adolf Gobel, Inc." on these products is an assurance of the highest excellence. Last...