Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three hundredth anniversary its oldest building, Massachusetts Hall, is passing through its two hundred and fourteenth year. Somewhat abashed by its new efficiency of running water and electric lights, Mass. Hall can still recall the tinkling of glass broken by cricket balls and perhaps by Revolutionary musket balls. Built in 1720 it came into being as a result of a grant by the Province of Massachusetts to the University of 3500 pounds...
...crew of six men and a truck have started to lovel off the lot, and it will probably be about two weeks before the space will be properly graded and fenced, according to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University. Two ramps are to be built across the sidewalk, and a wire fence is to enclose the plot. Durant also said that attendants will be on hand during the day-time, but no responsibility can be taken by the University for the safety of the cars or their contents...
...Carley Whiteside asked me if I could make him an eight-oared shell in six weeks, to be ready for the Yale race. The usual time is at least nine weeks, but I got busy and finished her just about on time. It was the first eight I ever built, and the crew broke the record in it though they didn't win the race. I've heard it said that it's the best boat they've ever had in the house...
...Public Works program, including Government-built low-cost housing, to prime the pump of heavy industry which refused to be primed by the first $3,300,000,000 appropriated last year. Such a program was discussed about the White House in astronomical terms of billions of dollars. Prime point was govern-ment spending on such a scale as the country had never before dreamed...
Only real deflation has been in the plant built up by Stock Exchange firms during the 1920s. Gone are the swank shipboard branches. Gone are all branches from many a U. S. city. Gone are one-half the boomtime customers' men. Gone are one-half the 10,000 tickers that tapped out the bad news five years ago this week...