Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This tunnel," said the Russian expert, with a note of admiration, "was built to last years. The party responsible must have had a lot of money...
Cigar smoke thickened, and as the Scotch bottles emptied, so did tongues. Wershow droned on. "I have pleasure in selling Lloyd Mangrum. He has his house built and paid for. He is relaxed and eating his food." Mangrum went for $15,500. "I give you Arnold Palmer. Short backswing; no choker." Palmer's sale price: $7,000. Wershow found his biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where...
...magazines, which once dealt mainly in fiction and features. "The magazines gradually became the instruments of original reporting, crusading, investigative reporting. The newspapers . . . gradually took on the former coloration of the magazines, with their fiction, features, crossword puzzles, panels, columnists, comics and other entertainments . . . Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services than to gather, write and print local news...
Astronomers are not building many ordinary optical telescopes these days, but electronic telescopes for catching radio waves from space are under construction in many countries. One of their advantages: they need not be built on clear-aired deserts or mountaintops. They can see the sky through the thickest clouds or even the smoky glare of Pittsburgh or Los Angeles...
...HUGE POWER PLANTS, the biggest coal-fueled generating units ever built, will be built for American Gas & Electric system by General Electric. The company has earmarked $110 million for the two units, to be located in the Midwest. Each one can supply electricity for a city...