Word: built
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...
Over the noisome brown Gran Chaco, battling doormat of Bolivia and Paraguay, ominous silence has lain for more than a month. Paraguayan soldiers, backed against their Verdun, a hummock topped by French-built Fort Nanawa, have had nothing to do but scratch hard-biting Chaco lice. In far-off Geneva, where they could not see the smile on the face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep...
...great bad-weather player." U. S. golf followers knew that young Densmore Shute was an able player in good weather also. He tied Gene Sarazen for third place in the U. S. Open on a hot June day in 1929. Now 28, medium-sized, dark-haired, lightly built and generally considered to have more finesse with his iron clubs than any other professional except Tommy Armour, Shute by his victory last week made it seem that he was the likeliest of the younger professionals to acquire the prestige which has been shared for the last decade by Sarazen and Hagen...
...near-Communist; Harvard Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large; Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School, a liberal of the first water; Engineer Hugh L. Cooper who built the Dnieprostroy Dam for U. S. S. R. Modestly buried away in the middle of the committee list was the name of its chairman and sponsor-Curtis...