Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what she was hearing in Moscow in 1925: "When the hour for action arrived, many of the Old Bolsheviks who had been Lenin's adherents for years wished to postpone the decisive blow. Trotsky, the new recruit, stepped into the breach and made the Revolution with Lenin. . . . Trotsky built an army out of worse than nothing; out of demoralized deserters who had determined never to fight again. . . . Trotsky is still today [1925] after endless attacks, the most popular and significant figure in the land...
They were provided with a special building, built in 1654 and called the "Indian College", in the space now between Harvard and Massachusetts Halls, in which some 20 could be accomodated. Harvard's Puritan fathers went even further to lure the Indians into the college where they might be instilled with Christianity. For besides having their own dormitory, most of the aborigines had their expenses paid by friends who were formed into a "Society for Propagating the Gospel", in favor of which odd amounts of pounds and shillings are listed on the old budgets...
...display at the Harvard School of Design in Robinson Hall is an exhibition of sketches and watercolors by Eliot F. Noyes '32. Most of the paintings were done in Iran at Persepolis--a group of palaces and terrace built by Darius and Xerxes about 500 B.C. The collection also includes subjects from Kashmir, India, Iraq, and Egypt. The paintings are watercolors of landscapes and mosques, and bazaar and native village scenes. They are free impressionistic pictures, boldly handled with lively colors...
...with the other sides of the language, the arrangements for courses in speaking are farcical, tending to discourage the students. The three half courses, for only one of which is credit given, are the minimum the Department thinks it can establish without starting an open revolt. Professor Packard has built the nucleus of an adequate series of courses, and what is now needed is official sympathy and recognition by University Hall of the potentialities of the subject...
...Securities & Exchange Commission for the first public offering of trailer stock. The registrant was Covered Wagon Co., the little Mt. Clemens, Mich, concern which was founded in 1930 by Arthur Georg Sherman (TIME, June 15). Exasperate by the faults and failures of a trailer he bought, Trailerman Sherman built one fc himself, was besieged on the road by s many "trailer tappers" (curious callers that he decided to make his model commercially...