Word: built
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born, the son of a drunken Georgian shoemaker and his peasant wife, Queen Victoria was on the throne, Karl Marx was a penniless scribbler, and the world seemed to find it a good deal easier to tell the difference between right & wrong than it does today. Stalin built an empire of a kind that Victoria could not have visualized even in her nightmares; he forged Marx's foggy philosophy into an iron knife with which to carve the earth; and he swamped mankind with an organized lie that, in the minds of millions, made white mean black, war mean...
...told of taking a trip with a Communist named Harvey. "Well," joked Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, "maybe it was Harry Bridges you were riding with. Stand up Harry-let him have a good look at you." Harry Bridges slouched amiably to his feet. "No," said Crouch, "he was heavier built...
...differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that its indictment was built on other, untainted evidence, the spy trial would be crossed off the calendar...
Houghton, when it was built, was described as "the present ultimate in builder's and airconditioner's art." The gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. '29, the Library owes much of its up-to-dateness to the efforts of the director, Professor William A. Jackson. There are ticking devices that look like seismographs to keep tabs on the temperature and humidity, ultra-violet equipment and a comparison microscope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm scope for scrutinizing documents, and microfilm viewers in the reading room for use with the Library's 1000 microfilms...
...Tucker but was labelled Italian Dolly. The undressed dolls are more active this year than ever before. One boasts of a "real soft nose and almost human ears." This one promised also to blow bubbles when given a pipe. They all can drink water this year (though none are built to retain it), and the manufacturers have provided "changes" for those unimaginative mothers who demand that their little ones behave just like them...