Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...janitor at the station used to be a plumber", Dr. Clark said, "we decided to build our pyramid out of pipe, each aide being about fifteen feet long. Barrels supported and buoyed it. On top of this triangle a high tower was built, with the instruments at the top. No one believed the thing would float...
After acquiring an accumulated distaste for all royalty, built up by subjection to the Americanism of our schools and politicians, I have, during the past year, revised my ideas regarding George V and his household to the point of admitting that it would not be an unbearable fate to have been born a subject of H.M. This transformation is a direct result of reading TIME. Your picture-composed of just those intimate glimpses of no consequence which Mr. McFarlan decries-has enabled me to see in Edward of Wales a character for which neither Reader McFarlan nor TIME need apologize...
...West. Adler, the businessman, and Sullivan, the delicate-fingered designer, took as one of their first jobs what is still an extraordinary architectural achievement: Chicago's Auditorium, comprising a theatre, a recital hall, a hotel and offices, the biggest edifice ever to be set on floating piles. They built offices, warehouses, hotels and theatres all over the Midwest and in 1890 ran up one of the few architectural monuments in the U. S. It sits on the corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets, St. Louis, and is called the Wainwright Building...
...room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically for a client. He built a Methodist Episcopal Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Just before the War he began putting up small banks in the Corn Belt. They remain among the finest...
...State Commissioner of Education Frank P. Graves (TIME, July 29). Said Rose's husky father David: "Rose is not fat. She is just big & strong." Said Rose's counsel: "You can see for yourself she's not fat. She's just built like a football player." Said Rose: "I'm built heavy like my brother, and he has given a number of blood transfusions. If you can give blood transfusions why can't you teach biology?'' Fortnight ago the New York City Board of Examiners answered Miss Freistater's appeal: "Teachers...