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Word: built (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year, some 250,000 people built new houses. Four million bought new automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Simple Changes | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...estimated that an average of 600,000 to 800,000 dwelling units ought to be built annually over the next five years to overcome the accumulated shortage and to meet the normal growth in number of families. In other words, we could build over the next five years three or four million housing units, which at a moderate estimate of $4,000 per unit would mean spending from twelve to 16 billion dollars, without creating a surplus of housing accommodations, and consequently without impairing the value of existing housing that is fit for decent human occupancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Simple Changes | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...shirt with built-in necktie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...know it can be improved," said Professor Graton. We hope it will never be completely perfected, and have built it so that it can be improved and will not be "sewed up." All adjustments are built so change can be made. Any possible form of illumination or camera equipment can be used. We are now at work on fundamental additions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Graton Discusses His Giant, Newly Perfected One Ton Microscope | 12/4/1937 | See Source »

...conclude, while these editorials have built up and torn down many hypotheses before judging Nieman Fellowships the best alternative, it must be remembered that there is some merit in all the suggestions made, and a compromise would therefore be wise. The $40,000 per year could well allow both fellowships and prizes or perhaps a new undergraduate course or two. Certainly from this broad surface an interested and college-trained man could scrape a journalistic education far better than any one school could hope to offer. And he would come closer to fulfilling the ideals which Mrs. Nieman so nebulously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NIEMAN BEQUEST: QUO VADIT? | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

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