Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journey, which must perforce be cursory, through the byways of a whole civilization. The difference between the formal education which the report eschews and the "liberal education" which it offers is that while one attempts to furnish a few tools with which to build, the other tries to construct a complete philosophy of life that will enable the owner to solve his individual problems, a philosophy that is more the result of actual experience than contemplation and research...
...honest Irishmen denied last week that in ten years the Cosgrave Government has put the country on a firm budgetary foundation (which it had to construct) ; has introduced important agricultural reforms; has overhauled the Irish cattle and dairying situations (with the result of improving Irish quality) ; and has helped to launch Ireland's industrial revolution. To this Mr. Henry Ford and the Shannon River Power development (by German engineers) have contributed most. But Ireland's young "Old Men" have done extremely well...
...what he has become, he is a magnificent tradition. But he no longer is of value to Americans, beyond the comfortable knowledge that once in the old days there were giants upon the earth. It is enough for the present to wave flags, to beat drums, to construct tales of a hatchet and a cherry tree. The sober mind, the common sense, the courageous, generous spirit lie with, and are of, an age that is past...
...close of the Russo-Japanese war, the coral-and-sapphire-buttoned mandarins of Her Celestial Majesty the Empress Dowager signed a treaty guaranteeing the security of Japanese subjects in Manchuria, promising not to construct any Chinese railroads parallel to the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway or prejudicial to its interest. At China's request, the terms of the treaty were kept secret. The world has long known of its existence. Violation of it was Japan's excuse to the world for the invasion of Manchuria. Last week it was published...
...gems as they caught the light was like staring at some inverted heaven. Even as he looked the lights dimmed and the curtain went up on Lammermoor, the story of a Scottish clan unraveled in the best possible Italian. For fifteen minutes the Vagabond strove concientiously to construct the story. He tried to recall his Scott to know avail, he tried to resurrect his Italian--with dire complications. At last he gave up and the better to pass the time looked hastily about him. Heigho, here was something better than trying to follow the Opera--the whole audience...