Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board of Preachers, each visiting Preacher conducts daily morning prayers for one or two weeks in each half-year, and each preaches on two or three Sunday mornings. This year marks the second-year in which services will be held in the Memorial Church in the Yard, built by the Alumni in remembrance of the Harvard dead in the World War. The list of preachers follows...
...Hamlet might suffer by the absence of the melancholy Dane, but the loss would be as nothing compared to that which Government 18 will suffer by the absence of Professor Bruce Hopper. Built on rather shifting ground and lacking satisfactory reading, the course has revolved almost entirely around the personality of the lecturer, and students have flocked to it in ever increasing numbers to hear one of Harvard's most fascinating speakers. But, this year Hopper is off hobnobbing with the "little brothers" of the Russian steppers and Government 18 is in the hands of others...
...long ere 1921 that he, his brother & Jimmie Byrd built up the Supermarine Aviation Works-not "Motor Co."-at Southampton...
...concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house and plastered it with wolfproof cement...
...boards of trustees. Said Savings Banker Bruère: "Savings have kept many a family and are still keeping many a family out of the bread line and off the city's hands. . . . Why, I ask you, should you tax this protection that the working man has built up by years of sacrifice?" Said Insurance Man Taylor: "This proposed tax is in effect a capital levy on ... policy holders and their widows and orphans...