Word: built
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, Harry Truman waited around to see if the Shah would join him in his morning constitutional. The Shah was not used to the President's early hours, but he was up in time to accept a specially built 30-06 hunting rifle with a silver butt-plate engraved: "From the President to the Shahinshah of Iran." Said the President : "A very earnest and sincere young...
...Harlem crap games. He was a partner in something called the Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...
Hardest hit were the concessionaires who rent clip-on sears built especially for the stadium. It's an off season for their 1000 slats of L-shaped wood, with a cushion or two glued to the sides...
...Theater" is a compromise between "theater-in-the-round" and the present proscenium stage. A lot of the new stage is still hidden from the audience--enough to allow for rapid changes of scenery. According to Mr. Wright's manifesto, which is posted near the model, scenery is built below the stage and rises on ramps to the playing area, which is equipped with a revolving disk. The "fly gallery" above the stage is completely eliminated...
Next year Hindemith will be teaching again at Yale, where he has been since 1939, the year after he left Germany. "It's nice to change, but I built up class there for ten years, and I don't give...