Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nest of Simple Folk" is as carefully studied as a novel could well be. Almost every relevant aspect of Irish life is built about the brief scaffolding of a plot outlined above. The book as a whole reminds one forcibly of the fortunate position which the Irish writer enjoys. Sean O'Faolain belongs to a culture which has felt intensely the impact or modern social unheavals, and simultaneously enjoyed the revival of rich and ancient national culture. As an artist he has profited by the great achievement of James Joyce in creating a mature racial conscience, while as an individual...
Earlier this year an enlarged budget for the navy was approved. But not great enough to close the insatiable maws of the Big Navy clique, to which unfortunately, the President lends the full weight of his power. They demanded that the navy be built up to the top strength of the Washington Treaty 5-5-3 ratio. The terriffic cost, from 750 million to a billion, did not deter them; the Vinson Bill was formulated and favorably double-checked by Congress...
...been evident from the beginning that sooner or later "planned economy" would come flatly up against the question of distinguishing between the efficient and the inefficient, between the people who through years of advertising or successful merchandising have built up a certain volume of business and those who have been hanging on, hoping some miracle would happen by which they would get a larger and larger share of their competitors' volume. But with government aid it will mean that arbitrarily the amount of volume will be allocated so that the total will somehow be more widely distributed...
...work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting social problems." Secretary of Agriculture Wallace had cried at assembled American Association for the Advancement of Science members in Boston last December...
...behind the counters of each. (In those years the red-front shops of the Brothers Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific literally sold nothing but tea, coffee and baking powder.) By 1890 Jim Butler was wealthy enough to buy his first string of horses. Ten years later he had built his own racetrack, the Empire City, at Yonkers. By 1929 he was reputed to be worth...