Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Built on the high hills of feminine superiority, the ideal home of the Akron University co-ed stands ready to receive her and the spouse of her choice. The walls will always glisten with clean white paint, for the male selected to preserve the material sanctity of this home must be qualified with an income of at least two thousand five hundred dollars a year. Unfortunately there must remain one vestige of the archaic male predominance, for the vulgar advantage of physical strength still cannot be argued away even by the eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions...
...eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when he was 32, although Benjamin Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, lived in Indianapolis. With one hand Taggart built up a large hotel enterprise, acquired French Lick Springs. With the other hand he ran politics. He managed the campaign of Alton Brooks Parker for President in 1904. In 1912 he started the swing to Wilson in the Baltimore convention and got Indiana's Thomas R. Marshall named for Vice President...
Many distinguished officers from Tid-worth barracks had, it appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, as usual, would direct his side of the battle from his famed olive-green staff car, an especially built and armored railway carriage containing every implement required by a Generalissimo...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...