Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent, excellent review of automobile styles for 1935 (TIME, Jan. 14) prompts the following letter. As interested seekers for an automobile in which the primary emphasis is placed upon sturdiness and durability we have become increasingly concerned with the general trend in automobile manufacture toward the production of cars built for speed, beauty, comfort, luxurious appointments and gadgets which fit them primarily for paved highways...
...write this letter in protest, and in query, not only for ourselves but for the many others we know who have similar interests. Where can we find a car built for byways and not for highways, sturdy, dependable, durable, and capable of reliable navigation under the poorest of road conditions...
Some six million more new houses, thinks London's Economist, must be built in the next 20 years "for decency." Today 35 percent of the population of Scotland are living more than two in a room, thus find themselves prospective violators of the new bills. In London slums, Government inspectors have reported up to ten residents per room. Last week Sir E.'s new measures contained emergency clauses to prevent police from cracking down unjustly or too soon, but breathed the urgency of prompt building action. For the first time Parliament will be asked to vote a nationwide...
...thousands & thousands of U. S. college seniors, who hate the prospect of hunting jobs, a prime ambition is to start some campus enterprise which they can take with them when they graduate. This year four Princeton seniors have built up such a business in Campus Publicity Service. Last week, however, they were thinking less about their plans for future expansion than about charges that they had been taking a low advantage of their fellow students...
Acting, however, is not the grand passion of Mrs. Norris' life. Her paramount pastime is croquet, at which she excels. The Norris summer ranch, La Estancia, at Saratoga, Calif., is virtually built around the croquet court, which is lined with floodlights for night games. The Norris croquet is an invention of their own, combining features of billiards and golf. Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan. Mrs. Norris can get inordinately angry at her croquet partners when they are bad. Guests on the 200-acre estate...