Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hovgaard, the technical adviser of the Court, recommended: that in future dirigibles be thicker in proportion to their length; that the control car be built into the ship's hull instead of depended from it; that if possible the engine cars be similarly placed; that the speed of dirigibles be increased to enable them to escape storms; that more mooring masts be set up, and better weather reports instituted for air navigation...
...Court rests on its own bottom, has its foundation, not in the Treaty of Versailles or in the covenant of the League of Nations but is built upon a separate treaty we are asked to approve, promulgated Dec. 16, 1920. By that treaty we assume no obligations whatever, either under the Versailles Treaty or the covenant of the League of Nations or otherwise. Our status toward the League is in no wise affected by the adherence contemplated by the pending resolution...
Americans had already built railway tracks in many parts of the country, but lacked satisfactory means of locomotion. They soon took up Stephenson's invention. In 1829 the Delaware & Hudson unsuccessfully tried out on its tracks a British steam locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion." The next year, however, the Baltimore & Ohio proved that steam locomotion was practicable by the successful trip of the "Tom Thumb" at Baltimore. In 1831 the first U. S. steam locomotive, the "Best Friend of Charleston," was running on the first purely steam railway in America-the South Carolina Railroad - from Charleston to HamBurgh...
Even if mechanical ingenuity can patch up this patriarch of the desert, a projecting wall will have to be built around the figure, according to Arthur Woodley. American civil engineer A caged Sphinx whose head is held on by bars of Birmingham iron can scarcely be expected to personify the wisdom and mystery of the East...
...time has made." Sarah, as everyone knows, deliberately slighted the great architect Vanbrugh by employing Sir Christopher Wren to design the "House" for her. Said she, when it was finished: "It cost ?50,000*. . . not really so extravagant, because it is the strongest and best house that was ever built...