Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original play, La Tosca, by Yictorien Sardou, it was Rome's Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, an edifice still set amid open spaces through which the revolutionary Angelotti could have escaped; in the opera, Puccini's church (Sant' Andrea della Valle) is in a thickly built-up part of Rome, where the escape seems less likely. So far, nobody has found an answer to this...
...practical man, with a windburned complexion and a flat drawl; he became Sunday school secretary of the Texas Baptist Convention in 1949, and since then has worked out his own theory of how to do his job. "Small units," he says crisply. "The small unit concept is what has built the Texas Sunday school system, and Sunday school is our best evangelistic opportunity. You build a church by building the Sunday school. When you reach people in Sunday school and teach them the Bible, you get the money; they want to expand the kingdom...
...time, he loses a certain edge from the show's brassy diffuseness, a certain authority from its lack of focus. He would very likely come off best on Broadway in the main slot of a revue. In any case, he is not well served in this jerry-built gag show, Broadway's latest example of burning down a house to roast...
...sold to U.S. armed forces. "No kidding," says he, "the first million is the hardest." After his fast exit from Germany he bought a mansion at Waterloo, Belgium, lives there with his wife and three children. To upgrade his social position, he joined Belgium's Royal Jockey Club, built up a stable of 35 thoroughbreds. From the owners' enclosure at Longchamps he has elbowed his way into the international set of Prince Aly Khan and French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac. As his gentleman jockey-trainer, McLane hopes to hire his friend, Group Captain Peter Townsend, as soon...
BIGGEST OIL REFINERY in Germany will be built near Cologne by Standard Oil of New Jersey. To be ready by 1959 at a cost of $119 million, refinery will have an initial capacity of 3,000,000 tons of crude oil annually, will build up to 5,000,000 tons by 1961, some 50% of West Germany's total current capacity. Project also involves six 36,000-ton tankers, plus a 150-to 200-mile pipeline from North Sea ports to Cologne...