Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest three judges frowned upon a judicial bench stacked high with counterfeit French francs. Since trial by jury has now been abolished in Hungary, the jury-box -built -for -twelve was pressed into service to accommodate twenty-six defense attorneys. The twenty-four prisoners, who sat close together on three long benches, arose one by one as their names were called, and nearly all confessed to having taken part in counterfeiting the piles of banknotes, but stated proudly: 1) that they had done so by command of their superior officers; or 2) that they had acted from the most disinterested...
...Bingham '16 brought out the necessity of a new swimming pool and a gymnasium, saying that when the new pool was built, as he hoped it would be by this time next year, it would be on a plot of land big enough to allow a gym to be erected beside it. He also reiterated his former statement that the extra money received from the new price of Princeton and Yale football tickets would be used entirely for the benefit of men who were not on any of the regular squads...
There was a tinge of irony in Mr. Lewisohn's position, whether the grandsons had been excluded for social or for academic reasons. He came to this country from Germany as a lad of 16, in 1865. His brother Leonard was already here and the two built up a big mercantile business, Lewisohn Bros. In 1868 they began specializing in metals, particularly copper, and soon led in world markets. Leonard died in 1902. Adolph, now 77, is one of the world's greatest mining and industrial potentates...
...digging is entirely under the American School of Classical Studies at Athens*; after 30 years or so of labor, the Agora will be given back to Greece, stripped of its 35 feet of debris, for a public park. Dr. Capps also formally opened the Gennadium, a new marble library built by the Carnegie Foundation to house historical documents given to the American School by H. E. Joannes Gennadius, wealthy Attic statesman...
...gold from mercury. Mercury was bombarded with streams of electrons from an X-ray tube at 140,000 volts, but not so much as one part of gold in a hundred billion of mercury was afterwards detected. Nitrogen bombarded with helium atoms going 12,000 miles an hour was built up into fluorine atoms, which then disintegrated into atoms of hydrogen and oxygen...