Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fervor was not enough. Wheat had been so closely planted that it toppled over or died of contagious rust. Newly dug potatoes rotted in the fields while peasants were rushed off to erect dams. Jerry-built mines collapsed, and backyard iron proved worthless for industrial use. In the cities there was noisy talk of a bumper harvest, but long queues of housewives found the stores empty...
...roof is a 6-in. telescope, a transparent plastic cupola for cold weather observations, a battery of meteorological gadgets. In between are perhaps the finest science classrooms in any U.S. high school, fitted with electronics laboratory, photographic darkrooms, areas for private student experiments and a specially designed fume hood built to specifications of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Preliminary plans for the 10-story structure have been completed, but actual working drawings will require six months or more for completion. The Center itself will be built in three stages over a period of time not yet determined. The first section of the building will open in the Spring of 1962, or possibly in the Fall...
Berenson's sharp eye for a genuine masterpiece served him well as he built up the large art collection that now fills his 40-room Settignano mansion. The contents of this villa, most of which have been willed to Harvard, include an extensive library of about 80,000 volumes on art, religion, and history as well as the art collection...
...Medical School has obtained its first-choice site for the construction of a new $5 million library, a spokesman for the Administration said last night. The library will be built on the Huntington Ave. land now occupied by the Martin Public School, which has been condemned by the city as unsafe...