Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when out of the sky drops James Madison Clevenger, the news magnate and former passionate admirer of Sara in her acting days. In spite of his cynicism and his occasional tossing over of an economics teacher to the Red-seeing rage of the populace, he reveals that he has built up a dike by means of most of the influential newspapers of the country against war propaganda from either side. In a great swirl of mixed emotions, including revived love for Sara and conviction that the people are sick of neutrality, he lets down the dike, first playing...
...Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...
...minutes, notices, and parliamentary procedure. The heads of the House Committees should bear the responsibility of inaugurating such an inter-House Committee, and of giving it the backing of all the Houses in the system. It is thus that a firmer foundation for inter-House cooperation can be built and the preference given to the interests of the College community as a whole, rather than the interests of a particular House in the group...
...Brooklyn College moved into a new $6,000,000 home in Flatbush-a 42-acre campus and five new buildings, academic, science, library, gymnasium, power plant -built by the city...
Since steel production is a basic economic index and since the stockmarket's traditional bellwether is U. S. Steel (whose operations last week were down a similar percentage"), a good case can be built to prove that railroad weakness is the governing factor in the current market slide. Last week this case was very much confused by the behavior of railroad stocks in one of the most tumultuous weeks in stockmarket history...