Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit this attempt to divert benefits from the beloved peepul, honest old Sam spent their last nickel in an attempt to prevent it. Bunk! Your attempt to make a martyred hero out of this old fellow is nauseating. . . . You say that "in place of small local operating plants he built big utilities - and built them well, for they still stand, still make money." What of it? ... Did old Sam build these big plants in order that people might have the benefits of Iower rates which large capacity makes possible? He did not! . . . . . . Who cares about who Insull married, about...
...final was the fact that only two U. S. players in the last 30 years-Sweetser in 1926, Jones in 1930-have won the British Amateur. What the 12,000 saw was something much rarer, one of those mystifying rounds which, built of luck, confidence and skill in exactly the right proportions, can make the game of golf appear to be a form of magic. Before the match Little said to a reporter: 'T feel like I might shoot some pretty good golf today." The match ended, for all practical purposes, on the first green where Wallace three-putted...
...York (3,600 mi.). Last week two other Frenchmen, Maurice Rossi & Paul Codos, set out from Paris to fly non-stop to California (6,200 mi.) and thus beat their own world's distance record set last year (New York-Syria, 5,657 mi.). Their plane, built five years ago by old Louis Bleriot, was named Joseph LeBrix after the famed French flyer who crashed to death in Russia three years ago. To spur them on the French Government offered a prize of one million francs ($66,000). Prevailing tailwinds sped them safely over the North Atlantic. Above Newfoundland...
...achievement: the "controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where he built a glider and wrote a thesis on propellers), Frank Caldwell put his education to practical use by becoming chief of the propeller division of Curtiss Airplane Co., then Chief of the U. S. Army Propeller Service for ten years. Since 1928 he has been associated with Hamilton Standard Propeller Co., subsidiary...
Like a paleontologist who reconstructs what might have been a dinosaur from a fragment of its jawbone, Evelyn Scott has built a life-size novel from a few strangers' photographs. In her rented East Anglian cottage Author Scott found herself wondering about the people whose group pictures helped adorn the walls, soon was giving names, relationships, histories to their different faces. Though she does not claim infallibility for her method, she implies that a knowledge of contemporary types is all a novelist requires for such a reconstruction: "For the historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality...