Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade approaches. President Hoover issues from the White House, climbs through the back of a grandstand built over the fence, tulip-bed and sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. He takes his post in a glassed-in pulpit, to receive and return the salutes of the U. S. People...
...White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
President Arthur, "the dilettante mid-Victorian, the ornament of New York club life, draped hangings of pomegranate plush over windows and mantels, built a partition of colored glass across the entrance hall, caused potted palms to spring from the red plush carpets and otherwise strove to reproduce in the interior the funereal effects that prevailed in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers of the period...
...Geddes horse-racing game was one of his most famed. It occupied an entire floor of his studio. The miniature race track was 20 feet long, lined with real grandstands. Twenty mechanical horses ran at one time, drawn by invisible threads from specially built, sensitive electric motors. Each motor had a rheostat, for speed variations. When a race was about to begin the rheostats were set so that each horse would travel at a speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were...
...Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse - was built. Then came the Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the Bancroft in Worcester, Mass., the President in Kansas City, the Prince Edward in Windsor, Canada, the Roosevelt in Manhattan and many another...