Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...
...pretty good idea for movies too." In 1933 Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into a movie. From Warner he bounced on to RKO, next tried Columbia, then Fox. Over the years, Producer Wald, 46, has built up a reputation for idiosyncrasies, something that is increasingly rare in the new Hollywood. Examples: he never lets female stars wear hats ("dangerously distracting") or slacks ("Take a love scene where you got two pairs of pants; I want to know who is doing what to whom...
From the tested model, Stephens designed a sleek, hard-charging champion that beat beautifully to windward, cut cleanly through the sea. Britain's Boyd built a barrel-chested challenger that bobbed too much in rough weather, slid off badly to windward. White-haired Cornelius ("Corny") Shields, Columbia's tactician during last summer's trials, put his racing-wise finger on Sceptre's big shortcoming: "She's too full forward and too fine...
...washed from higher ground, he and his men dug a trench up the hill behind the villa. It led them into a temple that had passed out of human memory more than 1,000 years ago. He realized that he had found something unique in Roman Britain: a temple built especially to serve the memory of a wealthy Roman-British couple...
...Heil from his days as a fellow of the Institute of Art History in Florence readily identified as a smaller copy of Cellini's bronze bust of Cosimo in the National Museum. Back in San Francisco, Dr. Heil traced references to such a work in the Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence's Boboli Garden in 1940, a polished marble Crucifix now in the Escorial...