Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street, was littered with broken glass, parts of the city were flooded by snapped water mains. The nine-story Great Eastern Hotel-whose terrified guests rushed out of their rooms more or less dressed-had settled four inches. Most of Manila's buildings, designed to withstand quakes, are built of bolted timbers. They stood the shock better than old Spanish stone houses and churches outside the town, many of whose walls and roofs crumbled. Before total damage had been estimated, Commonwealth-President Manuel Quezon-who had been dressing for a banquet in his Malacanan palace when the earthquake struck...
...Shanghai, however, the navy was not only doing most of the fighting but at least half of Japan's navy was in it. Flagship of the combined fleet was the 37-year-old British-built Idumo with lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa in command. The Idumo was moored opposite Shanghai's International Settlement, and ten days of bombing, shelling and one attempted torpedoing had so far damaged her but slightly. Sixteen miles downstream, where the Whangpoo River joins the yellow muddy estuary of the Yangtze lay the mass of the Japanese fleet, over 50 warships, including four...
Commonwealth College, founded in 1923 as a heterodox academy where left-wingers of all shades might work and study, was oddly built, and oddly remains, on a 320-acre tract near Mena in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. A cluster of frame houses, halls and barns in which all the manual labor is done by faculty and students, the College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make...
...Massachusetts' green and social Berkshire hills, a pioneer landowner in 1849 was William Aspinwall Tappan, Boston merchant and banker. He purchased 210 acres between Lenox and Stockbridge, called it "Tanglewood," built a Victorian mansion on it. He also built a small red cottage which he rented to Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. There Hawthorne wrote his Tanglewood Tales for children and began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best...
...Affaire Dreyfus is having its beginnings. The General Staff of the French Army, discovering that someone has been selling military secrets to Germany, looks around for a scapegoat, finds one in Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut), the only Jew on the General Staff. Dreyfus is tried, convicted on built-up evidence, degraded and sent to Devil's Island...