Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notes of protest, Red China filed counterblasts charging India itself with "provocations" and "border violations," asserting: "Frontier guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have all along been stationed in this entire area." Otherwise, asked Peking righteously, "How is it thinkable that China could have built a highway through this region?" The fact that the Chinese suffered few casualties in the latest skirmishes, said Peking, "exactly proves that the Chinese side was on the defensive. Anybody with a little knowledge of military affairs knows that...
...furnace for heating and an intricate piping system to bring the water of the torrent, the Patoclus, to the baths. Another major Roman innovation was the addition of five retaining walls and a cylindrical enclosed area almost as tall as the rest of the building. The building has been built in three separate stages: the as-yet undated early stage, the late Roman stage and the Byzantine stage, part of which had always been visible. The infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive...
After thorough testing, "concrete with a small amount of steel" was chosen as the most durable and practical material. Thus the Stadium became the first large reinforced concrete structure built in this country. The design had been established several years earlier by Professor L. J. Johnson, following the general plan laid down by the H.A.A. Final drawings called for a stadium 573 feet by 420 feet on the outside, enclosing a field whose overall dimensions were 478 feet by 230 feet...
...Crimson three-quarter line, built around Langi Kavaliku's speed and fullback Dick O'Neill's power and experience, is perhaps the finest in the East. Marked by its skillful passing, it had little trouble in amassing 18 points against New York last week...
Disturbed by the questions of several members of the audience as to control policies and financial advantages of the Loeb, MacLeish mentioned lightly that he "almost detected an undertone that we should never have built the theatre...