Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine feet square and twelve feet high, the castle took nine years to build, cost Miss Moore $435.000. Each room is built around some fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take...
...from some generous alumnus, who wished to give his money for no other purposes, that would be sheer heaven. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that Harvard has such a donor up its sleeve, but in all probability only two alternatives are open: the endowment must be built up from surplus gate receipts, or by means of a concerted drive among the alumni...
...boat, more streamlined and less v-bottomed than last year's product, is the first one to be built by Harvard of domestic wood and is looked upon as an experiment, but to date it has seemed in no way inferior to the foreign woods formerly considered indispensable...
...Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony; Matthew B. Brady, who photographed 3,500 battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel...
...Maple Leafs 2-to-1 when their young forward Regis Kelly tied the score two minutes before the end of the third period, made the winning goal in the overtime period that followed. When the uproar was all over, the Montreal Maroons, a clever, cautious team built around their crack defenseman, Lionel Conacher, had qualified to play the speedy, more experienced Toronto Maple Leafs for the Stanley...