Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end, as Connecticut greats met for "J. Henry's" funeral, Republican leaders had no idea who among them might succeed the dead Boss. He had never built up a No. 2 man. Vice Chairman of the State Central Committee is a woman, Miss Katherine Byrne of Putnam. Like the Republican Party almost everywhere, Connecticut's was for the moment as dead as the era that produced...
...their press. "The Catholic press today is the largest part of what is left of a really free press," expounded venerable Bishop Francis Kelley of Oklahoma City. ''Its very difficulties have helped to keep it free. . . . The solid foundation of Catholic truth upon which it is built holds it back from following the unthinking crowd. . . . True, it is not indefectible, but what it represents is indefectible. . . ." The convention number of the Rochester Catholic Courier added: "Competent observers have stated that it is because of ... restrictions [admonitions of the Holy See and directions of bishops] that the Catholic press...
...workers assigned to the museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes...
...Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap...
...well known in the little colony of New York as a competent skipper and a man of substance. Where he learnt his competence and where he got his substance is conjectural: probably the East Indies. As a citizen of Manhattan, Kidd married a twice-widowed lady, built a house on the Hudson and traded in real estate. One of the lots he sold is now No. 56 Wall Street. When Trinity Church was being repaired, Captain Kidd lent a runner & tackle to hoist stones...