Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last five years Professor George E. Mylonas of Washington University (St. Louis), backed by Rockefeller funds, has been working on the site with three Greek savants. The great hall of mysteries with its gateways and fortifications was uncovered before he appeared. It was believed that a sanctuary built in the 7th Century B. C. was the earliest theatre of the rites, that they were introduced to Greece shortly before that, some scholars thought from Egypt...
...Lincoln was assassinated, he first worked in his Norwegian father's planing mill. Learning the carpenter's trade, Son Carl in his early 20's took to the road, drifted to Omaha, San Francisco, Seattle, where he worked until the 1889 fire nearly erased that pine-built town...
...Madison, Bachelor Anderson lives with three sisters in a house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...
Hugh Samuel Johnson, author of Williams of West Point, Williams on Service, The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth, was found in Washington writing A Barnyard History of the United States. The book will be built around the careers, motives and achievements of great U. S. characters...
...even the most cynical broker in Mincing Lane had reason to suspect the honesty of Strauss & Co. Its nominal head and biggest stockholder, old Edward Anthony Strauss, was educated at King's College, is a member of Parliament from North Southwark. He inherited Strauss & Co. from his father, built it up into one of London's five biggest commodity houses, doing an extensive business in castor seeds, linseeds, peanuts. Edward Anthony Strauss and his colleagues had simply made the mistake of going short of peanuts. Instead of the surplus they had anticipated, there was an acute decline...