Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim. Fathers wearing 1914-18 Croix de Guerre, wives with strained faces, saw them off. Next day two more categories were called up. These were more cheerful, going to join their comrades, calculating that their job would be primarily defensive, to hold the most massive system of forts ever built, mostly underground. In two days and nights, Daladier moved between 500,000 and 600,000 troops to France's eastern border from Paris and other cities of the north, to join a million or more already there. All private munitions factories were taken over by the Government, all vacationing...
...King George returned, hurried and hatless, from Scotland to attend Privy Council, become a quasi-dictator and stay at Buckingham Palace, beneath whose gardens were built prodigious bombproof quarters for King, retinue, servants. Queen Elizabeth and the two Princesses stayed on at Balmoral Castle, where gas masks were issued to all. Later they would go to Windsor Castle, whose rock, looming above the fabled cricket fields of Eton, was tunneled and chambered invulnerably for them and for art treasures from Buckingham Palace as well as the Castle. Queen Mary obdurately insisted on staying at Sandringham on the dangerous east coast...
More than anything, the Harvard Union symbolizes the Freshman class's newly-found unity. Built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson, who also gave the College its stadium, to promote "the freest and fullest intercourse between students," the chunky brick building on Quincy Street houses many Yardling activities...
...final building in 1848 of the transisthmian railway, used by thousands of U. S. citizens on their way to California's gold rush in '49. (For every mile of railroad built 125 men died of disease...
...tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast, have built public courts for colored players. A. T. A. bigwigs have sent picked teams on barnstorming exhibition tours of U. S. cities. Result: a vastly improved crop of colored tennists...