Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After dinner, however, when the artists and musicians return to studying for their hour exam the next day, all are grateful that John Hicks built a house in 1726 which can now be used for a library. In one of its nine rooms on three floors, Kirkland House members can retreat from their roommates and tutors, and find a soft chair in which to study or fall asleep. Another location where much occurs is the Junior Common Room, where forums, concerts, and meetings punctuate the eternal magazine reading and piano playing...
...sextagon-shaped building, built along with the most recent of the Harvard Houses, has many large and comfortable suites, particularly those facing away from the adjacent MTA carbarns. But it is not for its physical setup that freshmen should choose Eliot House; instead they ought to consider the opportunities the House offers as far as meeting teachers and fellow-students, and as far as encouragement for constructive efforts in any field are concerned...
Master Ronald M. Ferry '12 is proud of the policy of spontaneous generation which has characterized the House ever since its inception in 1931. And precisely because Winthrop has been built from the roots rather than from imposition and incitement from above, its members feel a belonging which they themselves have participated in creating...
...dependable simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper, in the glen...
...cheery. In a patriotic fervor, the country endorsed the idea that every veteran was entitled to own his home, and the resulting pieces of Federal legislation created an ideal opportunity for unscrupulous builders. Lured on by "no money down" advertising, married veterans proceeded to burden themselves with jerry-built houses and crushing mortgages, the wheels of credit began to grind, and the John and Mary Drones of America were trapped...