Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hugh, then director of Ireland's National Gallery, left the pictures to England. But before he went to his death aboard the torpedoed Lusitania off Cork in 1915, Sir Hugh added a codicil to his will giving the pictures to Ireland, provided that it built a suitable gallery for them within five years. The codicil was not witnessed, so it had no legal validity. But from the moment of Sir Hugh's death, the Irish began pressing their claim to the Lane pictures. In Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art there is an empty room lined...
...Hitler Built More. Opposition leaders expected new repressive legislation, which would antagonize Istanbul's urban sophisticates but would insure Menderes' hold on the countryside. But though threatened, his opponents were not cowed. Snapped Osman Bolukbasi, leader of one opposition party, "Hitler built many times more dams, bridges and harbors than Mr. Menderes, and still Hitler fell...
...France, where analysis of a man's character from his handwriting is considered a science, Raymond Trillat has risen to the top of his field. He has built up such a large practice that 300 firms now call on him to describe the characters of job candidates from the squiggles they make on application blanks. But back in 1946 Trillat began a second career. "If you can study someone's handwriting and deduce ideas about his character," he reasoned, "why can't you reverse the process? By modifying his handwriting, perhaps you can modify his personality...
...night in 1916 he was writing in the mud shelter he had built himself among the Tuaregs, when a band of marauders hauled him outdoors and shot him. Almost 40 years before, he had written: "Think that you are going to be martyred, stripped of everything, stretched out on the ground, naked, unrecognizable, covered with blood and wounds, violently and horribly murdered . . . and hope that this will happen today...
FLORIDA'S BIGGEST single industrial development, an aircraft factory, will be built by Howard Hughes on 30,000 acres of land near Miami. Hughes is mum on what kind of planes he will build, but the plant will reportedly cost around $50 million, employ...