Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knighted in 1932 for giving nearly 40 of his 70 years to planning garden cities and improving Britain's housing. But he found one significant difference between the housing boom in Britain and the hoped-for boom in the U. S. In England 260.000 working men's houses were built in the past year after construction costs had fallen...
...infested "Wild East" stretches the Chinese Eastern Railway, spanning Japan's puppet state of Manchukuo from frontier to frontier and serving as a short-cut for the Trans-Siberian Line between Moscow and Vladivostok. Japan has had a wolfish eye on C. E. R. ever since it was built by Imperial Russia, which retained a half interest in the road. This half interest Soviet Ambassador Yurenev offered last year to sell for 250,000,000 gold rubles (then $168,000,000). Japan insisted that the nominal buyer must be Manchukuo, but the 13-month haggle has been held...
...Built to specifications laid down by doctors and psychologists during the past 40 years, this "average" child is described and dismissed as non-existent in Your Child Is Normal, by Dr. Grace Adams, published last week.* A psychologist whose 15 years of experience include research at Cornell University, social work among Southern mill children and psychiatric treatment of rich "problem children" in Manhattan, Dr. Adams is married, childless. Her book is a guidebook to children, "a unique, interesting and likable class of human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior...
...Barton-Beebe bathysphere is a single steel casting 1½-in. thick and 4 ft. 9 in. in diameter. It weighs 5,000 lb. There are three 8-in. windows of fused quartz. The sphere was designed and built by Otis Barton, Harvardman (1922 ), big game hunter, onetime Paris art student. He presented it to the New York Zoological Society. That body and the National Geographic Society sponsored the present expedition...
...Second House from the Corner, written in the same whimsical, speculative vein, with the same familiar snatches from the cracker barrel of homespun philosophy. Some of the fragments are pretty stale and moldy. Author Miller writes about himself after the manner of a daily columnist. Now he has built himself a house. He serves up 34 disconnected pieces about the new edifice and the community in which he and his wife find themselves. He fails to give the name of the town but it is plainly one of those small suburban "paradises" on the California coast...