Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding ruling on a constitutional question." The second question, he declared, was whether Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals (whence the debated power line leads) was legally constructed. Both because it was built under Wartime laws to provide power for making explosives and because it was designed to improve navigation, the Federal Government had been entitled to construct it. Therefore the dam was not illegal. Third question was whether the Government had the right to sell power created at a legal dam. Said...
...newsprint mills, that its machinery was largely obsolete. He proceeded to build and buy enormous new plants in Canada and Newfoundland, where the pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough generating capacity to serve a sizable section of Ontario and Quebec...
Some took shelter in the solidly-built church; some roped themselves in the branches of stout trees; some huddled in boats moored in the comparatively sheltered lagoon. Terangi. his family and the French Administrator's wife were lashed in a tree. When the hurricane had made its first passover everything but one of the boats had been swept away. Because the survivors knew the torrent of wind and water would soon be back, from the opposite direction, they abandoned the boat, clung to a heap of coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous...
...face off will find the two captains, Freddy Moseley and Jim Mills, opposing each other, Freddy at left wing, Jim at right. The Yale team has been built around Mills, who scored four of the seven Yale goals in the series last year, and he should make a good match for the smooth-skating Harvard leader. With Mills are Bill Moore, a former St. Paul's teammate at center, and Dan Badger, who played with Moore all last year, at left wing. This is a smooth-working line that may be able to put it over on Stubb's crack...
...Plimpton will be in charge of all undergraduate and graduate employment, and a new administration machine will be built up in the next year. On the question of scholarships, the committee will take up the problem of small and large awards, methods of administration, definition of financial need, and other questions...