Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, government officials, realizing the old boy to be something of a menace to paleface citizens-he carried a long knife and was somewhat irascible-enclosed a part of his land with a high, man-proof, woven-wire fence and put him inside. A comfortable house was built for him and an Indian man and wife were employed to care for him. At first, he resented his caretakers, running them off the place with the knife and he absolutely refused to sleep in the house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built...
Last week Secretary of the Interior Ickes moved into his new $13,000,000 Department of the Interior Building, the first major Government edifice planned and built in Washington by the New Deal. Justly proud of his massive limestone masterpiece, which sprawls over two blocks and has twelve wings to insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which...
...Built for the College mess hall in 1870 on the historic "Delta" but now twelve years abandoned as an eating establishment, Memorial Hall is centrally located for advanced workers in many departments...
...only fitting in a musical comedy, the story is built to fit the songs and dances and achieves just the proper melodramatic touch in doing so. The elder Strauss, his waltzes on the lips of all Europe, is jealous of his son who shows a talent equal to his own, even if in a style abhorrent to the father. He thwarts his son's ambitions to lead an orchestra and play the waltzes he fears may become more popular than his own. But he is in good turn himself thwarted in his machinations, by nothing less than the intrigues...
...Carnegie Institution's seismograph station on Mt. Wilson in California, Dr. Hugo Benioff has built recorders which work by electromagnetism. The weight is a magnet hung so that its poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature, the distance between it and the magnet changes slightly, altering the magnetic field and creating a tiny electric current which is amplified by vacuum tubes. This current fluctuates the light beam which makes the record, also twitches a galvanometer needle. In the Benioff seismograph, earth movements are magnified 200,000 times...