Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blank cartridge that starts on its course another of the infinite relay of plans for good is fired by the correspondent whose letter suggests the foundation of a Peace Museum. The institute so built might surely offer its gallery of portraits and memorials as a Mecca to a peaceful world; and there would stand a library likewise devoted to this ideal; and, if the founders were really generous, the edifice housing these mementoes would be quite as inspiring as its contents. There is the raw material for a highly pleasing concretion of an ideal...
...Freshman team is built around a nucleus of Ordway Southard '32 and C. D. Laine '32 who are members of the University team which, besides successfully defending its Intercollegiate Championship, now bids fair to capture the Massachusetts Metropolitan League title...
...death of Colonel Miller (father of the Miller brothers) the family was, as Zack Miller remarked, "flat as the prairie." Once it had been a great cattle family. In 1880, old Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed...
...spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest looking bunch of stock brokers that could be gathered together in Hollywood, he is given opportunity to do everything but get into a good old fashioned fight...
...talking, all negro, added attraction is built around a last line which makes it entirely unintelligible to the spectator who arrives in the middle of it. Producers in this new field will have to be careful not to estrange the large number of movie goers who like to see their films backwards...