Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press of Cleveland. He resolved to "keep close to the people" and ever afterward did so, not by sensational pandering, crocodile tears or condescension, but by keeping himself clear of things not near the people, and by remaining a gentleman. When he handed over 24 newspapers that he had built up in 15 states, to his son, Robert P., four years ago, he asked him to do likewise...
...control of their property and policies. If they failed, they might pay him back whenever they could. He was not an insistent creditor. He counted his judgment as much a part of the investment as their honor. And it was against his instincts to "sell out"; once he had built something, he kept it. He did not barter, destroy, amalgamate and otherwise treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner of his late contemporary, Publisher Munsey. A publisher of the highest order, he remained always a newspaperman himself, sticking to the platform that he wrote...
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do; I'm half crazy, all for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage, We can't afford a carriage, But you'd look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built...
Their bicycles were not built for two. Taut skeletons of aluminum and steel, so light that they can be lifted on a stiff forefinger, so strong that they can endure terrific smashes, their racing bicycles reveal what a strenuous age has done to an engine once fitted for leisured lovemaking and connubial perambulation. The wiry men who rode them did not all look sweet upon the seats; their faces, as they swept around the track for the first lap, presented a jumbled cinema of anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically...
...oldest institutions of its kind in this country. The Association was originally organized by Professor P. H. Hanus, the first professor in the Harvard School of Education. For a number of years Professor Hanus undertook to carry on the duties of secretary of the Association during which time he built it up to its present proportions. After his resignation Professor Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, was chosen for the office of secretary. Among the distinguished presidents of the association are the late James J. Storrow '85, President Emeritus Eliot '53, and the late Frank...