Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world, we nevertheless realize the similarity of character and emotion which has persisted through the rough and oftentimes crude period of our early history. Because these men are not historical characters and therefore were not great and unusual men, we appreciate even more that these were the men who built the west and are responsible for the extent to which civilization has been allowed to travel...
Also in the line of socer concenration this is the week for organization seven-man teams in Don Sleeper's and Danny Burbank's new league. Built around the Freshman spares, the league will also be open to all men in the University who are, otherwise unconnected with Harvard soccer...
...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...
Front No. 2. From there down past Teruel, rocky hills and easily defended passes make actual trenches unnecessary, but the strong points here are well built, well defended, so much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such...
...century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from children's plays to the philosophy of Plato, from the Antigone of Sophocles to Al Smith; and who died, having known practically everybody and dabbled in everything, as recently as 1933. Tall, active, heavily-built, deeply bearded, John Jay Chapman had such a drastic sense of personal justice that he voluntarily burned his left hand (so badly that it had to be amputated) to expiate a blow he had struck a friend. His consciousness of civic responsibility was so strong that he went from Manhattan...