Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer know, and his work and character can only be judged when placed against the exciting background of the years gone by. As the figures of Cleveland and the first Roosevelt towered above the ordinary men in government at the turn of the century, so the man who built up the empire of Standard Oil set the pattern for that industrial achievement which characterized America during those years...
Last week a new $1,000,000 white granite mint, built like the legendary San Francisco hillside cow (five stories in front, three behind) was dedicated in that city by Mrs. Ross. Covering a city block bounded by Buchanan, Hermann, Webster and Duboce Streets, the box-shaped mint squats on the scalped dome of live rock which made that block a real-estate liability until the Government took it. From the sidewalk visitors must climb 175 steps to the huge sliding bronze front door where bas relief dollars two feet wide greet them. A storage and assay depot as well...
...Westminster? Westminster Abbey is not a Cathedral. It is just what its name implies, an Abbey church, the oldest and finest in ancient London, built on the site of a Roman temple of Apollo. Britain's kings have always been crowned there because it was the church of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror. London's Cathedral is the many times larger St. Paul's on the crest of Ludgate Hill. Here such state ceremonies as the Thanksgiving after the Armistice and the Jubilees are always performed. The former Dean of St. Paul's, "Gloomy...
...waters. En route to the U. S. last week were two yachts, with one of which Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hopes to win this summer the prize that U. S. skippers have successfully defended since 1851. One was Endeavour II, built a year ago and raced by Skipper Sopwith in English waters last summer. The other was Endeavour I, which Rainbow defeated...
...Boom de-ay"--"The Bowery"--"The Sidewalks of new York" "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"--Daisy bell" ("A Bicycle Built for Two")--"Comrades"--"Little Annie Rooney"--"She May Have Seen Better Days"--"The Band Played On"--"After the Ball"--"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...