Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exercises in memory of the late president of Harvard, to take place next March on the centenary of his birth, were announced by the Charles William Eliot Memorial Association. The organization, founded last February, also plans to secure the dedication to his memory of a proposed bridge to be built by the state across the Charles River between Soldiers Field and Gerry's Landing...
...seventh chukker, Boeseke barely saved himself from a bad fall when his pony wheeled too sharply; a few moments later he had his hand bruised by a mallet. By this time Aurora, having gained four goals in the fifth chukker, two each in the sixth and seventh, had built up a six-goal lead. Smith, consistently ridden off by Knox, the smallest man on the field, broke loose finally in the last chukker but Greentree's rally came too late. When the game was over, 14 to 11, Mrs. Seymour Knox presented the championship trophies to her husband...
...after them," he recalls. "Week after week they'd come back at me. They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters of Boston, oldtime musicomedy favorites. They built houses next to each other at Great Neck, L. I. From then on the pinchbeck little kingdom which begins at Manhattan's Columbus Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain of George M. Cohan. He did things his own way. He has never felt at home...
...banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess of Thurn & Taxis, for an accounting of her father...
Bishop Kenju Masuyama, primate of the Buddhist Church in North America, gazed at the $50,000 Manchurian Railways Building, a handsome structure in the style of the Kamakura period, built in Chicago of Japanese materials by 25 Japanese carpenters. Said Bishop Masuyama to the man in charge, one Kiyohide Yamashitu...