Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his graduation from Harvard in 1921, young Mr. Cowles has gradually taken over the direction of the two newspapers that his father built up with various consolidations. He has given them a distinctly metropolitan aroma, made their circulations soar, increased subscription rates. For he believes that "the larger the proportion of its revenue a successful newspaper receives from its readers the stronger is that newspaper's position...
...Chilton, England, the Rev. E. P. Gough, rector of a nearby parish, found a church, buried beneath a rubbish pile. Disregarding the symbolical nature of his discovery, he immediately broadcast news of it together with interesting details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse...
Like many corners of England, Chilton abounds with relics of its ancient tenancy. Near to the almost perfectly preserved little chapel which Rector Gough discovered last week are the remnants of a Norman Church, built at a much later date and destroyed during the last century. In its foundations there is a tomb upon which travelers may read this somewhat anxious epitaph: "John of Candover lies here. May the good and gracious God have mercy...
Theodore of Amasia lived and died for his faith in God many centuries ago. In his honor, the citizens of Jerash, Trans-jordania, built a church with three apses, a court and a fountain. The ruins of this church were found last week by a Yale Archeologist, one J. W. Crawfoot...
...Lenox Quartet, which has built up a considerable reputation for itself in and around New York City, is composed of Wolfe Wolfinsohn, first violin; Edwin Ideler, second violin: Herbert Borodkin, viola, and Emmeran Stoeber, 'cello...