Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations," said Count Carton de Wiart, President of the Conference, in his final speech, "44 [Persia dropped out] States, members and nonmembers, came to the Conference. And today, in spite of 'Jonahs,' we are able to present to the world a solid structure, not built on clouds, but founded on a rock of solid realities. Reduction of armaments is not yet achieved, but an important step has been made toward it. Let us render thanks to the League of Nations...
...Rome was built on the following hills: Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, Palatine, Aventine...
Came Henry, an inventor, who got the tin-can sound out of his grandfather's perfected dulcimer; Theodore, a mechanic, who standardized construction. Business moved uptown, from a barn to an office building. William, an organizer, headed the house of Steinway. He built Steinway Hall, which, last week, became a subject for the writers of human interest articles...
...Smithsonian Institution at Washington stands a very old airplane with a stern but bedraggled air, like that of a dead buzzard stuffed by an inexpert taxidermist. It was built by Inventor S. P. Langley in 1903, is said to have once wobbled in the ether over the Potomac River. On it is a label: "The first man-carrying airplane in the world capable of sustained flight...
...house is to be built in an ordinary fuselage 45 ft. long, supported on the ground by an immense undercarriage fitted with 44 by 10 in. tires, supported in the air by wings spanning 60 ft. There will be cabin accommodations (including berths) for six passengers, pilot, mechanic, cook. Features are electric lighting, heating from the engine exhausts, and electric stove and refrigerator system in the cook's galley, typewriter, writing desk...