Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsfield, Mass., it is proposed to buy a house built many years ago by Thomas Gold, whose granddaughter married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived and wrote there during several summers, and an adjoining house, built in 1820, in which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Ward Beecher and Fanny Kemble were frequent guests. The town not only proposes to buy the houses but to raze them and erect a modern high school. One thousand members of indignant front families protested last week against the design, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Revere Frothingham, noted Unitarian divine, ejaculated: "I am horrified by the sacrilege...
...force Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst, onetime Crown Prince of Germany, crossed the Dutch frontier and was met at Amersfoort by his uncle, the former Prince Henry of Prussia, that jovial "Sailor Prince" who visited the U.S. in 1902 to officiate at the launching of the Kaiser's U.S.-built yacht. Swiftly the aged uncle and the now perceptibly aging nephew sped to Doorn...
Before the War he could tell from memory the exact location of hundreds of ships plying all the oceans. In 1911 he was elected president of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Throughout his astounding progress and accomplishments in the steel field, which he to a considerable extent built up, he has retained his pleasant humanity...
Electric welding is not new to machine shops, especially locomotive works, but for structural steel work a new type of welder had to be evolved. The "Stable-Arc" welders used by the Morgan Co. were built by the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland and mounted on hand trucks. The process: a high frequency arc up to 300 volts is applied to a bar of steel corresponding to a bar of tinsmith's solder, which is pressed along the crevice between two surfaces that are to be joined. The bar is melted, as are both the girder surfaces along the line...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is a wealthy and energetic 27-year-old who has reported news for Publisher Hearst's newspapers, built up a news service of his own, built up three successful tabloid dailies in California and Florida. He has a considerable patrimony but may justly boast that his success is due not solely to that but to his name and his not inconsiderable journalistic talent...