Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief, and police be free to attend flooded areas. We are watching fire in our homes with care as has been requested because engines and pumpers are needed in the Basin where gas tanks have been undermined and gasoline released by the flood, also because the Water Works, built high above flood danger, are inundated today...
...like most great rivers, has carved a channel sufficient to carry its ordinary waters. In flood times, if not artificially restricted, it spreads its waters over most of its alluvial valley. Levees make the floods higher by penning them in, and levees which are made of dirt cannot be built high enough to hold the whole flood in the river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when big floods occurred the Army planned to let the river use floodways over the lowlands, to let say 20% of the alluvial plain...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation...
Fifty-three-year-old Walter Gropius has architecture in his blood. His great uncle was an architect. His father was a member of the Berlin Building Commission. Educated at technical schools in Berlin and Munich, he built his first houses in 1906, by 1910 had already designed an undecorated factory with great screen walls of windows, later a standard practice in the International Style. He was passionately interested in low-cost housing and an architecture that would need to borrow nothing from traditional styles. When the War came, he fought in the Imperial Army, and it was not until after...
...impunity except his own brilliance, Chicago's Hutchins shredded the complacency of nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy of law on which he built a program for legal education. Then he dared the Bar really to reform legal education. His dramatic appeal did not come kindly to all the listening legalists in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, but they voted him an honorary member of their Bar in admiration of his eloquence...