Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
...water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods...
...quite knows how much of the legend is Casey and how much is the imagination of Sportswriters Ring Lardner, W. O. ("Bill") McGeehan, Ed Anthony, Joe Williams and friends. The legend was built on a prosaic baseball career that began in Kansas City in 1910. In 1912 Casey (for K. C.) went up to the National League as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1918 he was traded to Pittsburgh, then to Philadelphia, New York and Boston of the National League...
...University has killed three birds with one stone. With the announcement that a new Hemenway gymnasium will be built containing twelve regulation size squash courts, comes the solution of three serious problems. This gymnasium will remove the difficulty of giving graduate students quick exercises in an accessible place. It will also relieve the strain on the capacities of the University squash courts and lastly will take care of the pressing need for regulation rourts for the squash matches with outside colleges. Of these three dead birds, the first is by all odds the largest...
...Winthrop House can manage to finish in a tie with the Deacons. Coached by Ken Ryan of Utah State, the Puritans have perhaps the strongest defensive team in the league, with George Cole at tackle and Captain Moore and Charlie Gillilland at guards as the standouts. The backfield is built around quarterback "Little Joe" Hindle, a good ball carrier and an outstanding quick kicker...