Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First comes the desire to quell the animosities and race hatreds which, let loose by the war, might well continue to go far toward tearing down the civilization built up with travail and difficulty in the course of many centuries...
Colonial--"Stella Dallas", a motion picture, at 8.15: Built with marvelous taste and refinement. An excellent argument for admitting the movies to serious dramatic consideration...
...defects, the first proposal of the miners is the clearest of all the plans. It requires arbitration of and publicity for all the conditions of the industry, from mine to market,--including wages, prices, and profits. But the machinery needed for such an undertaking would have to be built with an impartiality and care not universal among industrial negotiators...
Starting with five men who answered the initial call for gridiron aspirants at Trinity last fall, Coach Clark built up a squad which ranged between 15 and 20 players throughout the season. With this meager material the new mentor produced a well coached and capable eleven which won its most important games, those with Wesleyan and Norwich. The latter contest was won by a 10 to 9 score after the losers had downed the Tufts team by a 14 to 0 margin. The win over Norwich was well merited and the high spot in the Trinity season...
...this," he went on, "because of necessity our future supply organization must be so built that, like a rubber band, it can in a moment be stretched to a hundred times its size without breaking under the strain. It must be just as effective in the new shape as in the old, and must carry a heavier load at every point. It must be kept alive in times of peace, so that it may not succumb to dry-rot. Incidentally, it has had a very active life in the past few years, trying to stretch itself to cover the many...