Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniform rent system to be instituted after the eight House is built, was suggested last night at a poorly-attended meeting of the Student Council. The group was prevented from taking effective action on most of the items on its agenda by the lack of a quorum for a good part of the meeting...
...theater, he was probably in the slightly more comfortable great hall next door. The hall measured 90 ft. by 45 ft. Charcoal fragments mixed with the earth showed that it must have been burned down at least once, and careful digging indicated that at least three halls had been built successively on the same site. Arson was standard practice in King Edwin's time...
...Zhuk, 65, Soviet engineer; cause of death, unreported; in Moscow. Though little known outside Russia, as director of such mammoth enterprises as the White Sea-Baltic Canal (opened in 1933), the Moscow-Volga Canal (1937), and the Volga-Don Canal (1952), he was the boss of the biggest projects built by forced labor since the Great Wall of China...
Fringes & Flints. As the Prudential's seventh president in 81 years, Carrol Shanks sits behind Old John Dryden's huge mahogany desk, in a suite of offices in Newark built in the days when insurance men spent heavily for purposes of prestige. Hand-carved Honduras mahogany frames the president's doors and windows; the walls are covered with silver-filigreed blue paper, the ceiling fringed with gold leaf; deep piled rugs smother the floor. Shanks sometimes works in his shirtsleeves, dials his own phone...
...historian in World War II, Author Draper knows that for this kind of work a man needs access to enemy records. Draper himself-an old New Masses, Daily Worker and Tassman who broke with the Reds at the beginning of World War II-had this knowledge of the enemy built in. Yet he has preserved a stiff objectivity-rare among ex-leftists -which has kept him on the cold course plotted by the Fund for the Republic, which sponsored his study. The book is all the more welcome because, as Draper understates it, "Communists themselves cannot write their own history...