Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commanding an ironclad ship built in the shape of a tortoise, Admiral Yi Soon Shin won a naval victory over the Japanese during the wars of the late 16th century...
...counts (and the FBI was keeping Key Witness Cheasty well-guarded pending the trial), Hoffa could be both imprisoned and fined. He could easily afford the fine and, all other things being equal, he was still young enough to take a prison sentence in stride. But Jimmy Hoffa had built his whole reputation on being an awesomely smart guy. And that reputation could hardly survive being caught with the goods while pulling an incredibly stupid stunt...
...Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found that the more peaceable...
...federal office building, two new $1,000,000 banks, a $2,000,000 office building for Imperial Oil Ltd., and four other office buildings of six to eleven stories. A record-shattering housing boom thrust new residential suburbs out into the prairies faster than streets and sidewalks could be built to serve them. Power lines, sewers, bus routes are growing, but never quite fast enough to keep up with the demand. It takes a year to get a new telephone. But, grins Mayor Hawrelak, this is a major improvement-it used to take three years...
...something special about shy, quiet Horace Bixby. Because of the Depression, "Bix" had never finished college. But he had an obvious talent for science and mechanics-and an even more important knack for getting along with children. He brought them birds and fish to study and care for. He built them an incubator, a model cloud chamber...