Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They still were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...
...situation stands now the H.A.A. has to pay for the overhead, fixed costs and upkeep of all its athletic buildings and playgrounds regardless of how often they are used or of the number of people using them. Dillon Field House, Newell, Weld and the Indoor Athletic Building were all built to accommodate as many men as would ever come out for all seven of these unfinanced sports, and are costing the University almost as much as if they were actually used to full capacity. Thus if these sports were put back on the H.A.A. payrolls, the only extra expense that...
...escape of Morrow, "The New York Daily News" fared the worst of all the papers represented. No less than three staff members of this paper fiew from New York in a plane piloted by an ace photographer. The latter is easily identified by his officer's cap with a built-in camera. An aggressive woman feature writer and an ordinary news man made up the rest of the party...
...plot is built around two colleges fellows who are left a legacy of $50,000 by an eccentric uncle. By the terms of the will, if they lose the money by legitimate business means within a month, they will receive the rest of the uncle's millions. Their futile attempts to squander the money by buying a night club and trying to make it a failure make up the rest of the action...
...this tradition, the present Mr. Baker is no public figure, makes news more frequently as yachtsman than banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built a new town house on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, there carries on the old Baker custom of lavish Christmas Day receptions, with a big present for each guest...