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Word: built (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams and of violent discussions. Here are the two most interesting personalities in American criticism- opposed to each other, both prejudiced and both, apparently, escaping from themselves, in public utterances absolutely giving the He to the faces which they have built around themselves, with which to greet their fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pen-Enemies | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...first place, it was built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HAIL, DIVINEST MELANCHOLY!" | 2/7/1925 | See Source »

...future. The Holden Twins and the new Bursar's office, shown in the center of the map are already under construction, whereas the new chemical laboratory on the site of Boylston Hall and the Memorial in the center of the Yard are still on paper, although depicted as already built...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOTEL EVOKES HOSTILE SENTIMENT | 2/5/1925 | See Source »

Would not any price that the University had to pay for the property be better than to allow a hotel to go up on it? Once acquired, a much needed Sophomore and Junior dormitory could be built there. R. I. Strans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speed Thee, Little Wish | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

...must receive such news with a grave apprehension for the future of the University. It must be the secret if perhaps unexpressed wish of all who are interested in Harvard to see the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles become an integral part of the college, and built up according in some plan that will do justice to the beauty of the river site. Such a plan was printed in the Alumni Bulletin of November 20, 1924. A ten-story modern building in its midst would destroy the possibility of its ever being carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speed Thee, Little Wish | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

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