Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towers made at once a gate to the city, a fortress, and a prison for thieves and political offenders. Old as was the Petit Châtelet, its winding subterranean crypts and dungeons were even older, and included a portion of a long forgotten secret tunnel under the Seine built when 9th Century Paris was besieged by fierce red-haired Norman pirates. The Petit Châtelet was pulled down in a popular uprising just before the Revolution, its more obvious cellars filled in and forgotten...
...should a new capital city for a country of 400 million people be built? What should it include...
Beginning next week and lasting all summer and autumn will be an open season for the publication and republication of Edison biography, anecdotes, photographs. Again and again will be told the U. S. folk-legend of the newsboy, born in Milan, Ohio, who built a great fame out of such invisibilities as electrical impulses, sound waves, ether vibrations...
...United Cigar Store Tycoon George J. Whalen's Warrior across the Atlantic. In Manhattan the Corsair's officers announced that she would be turned over to the U. S. Geodetic Survey. Mr. Morgan will not stop yachting. A two-million-dollar successor to the Corsair is being built in Bath...
Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...