Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the McCarthy evangel began in 1950, the liberals saw in his distortions and exaggerations a chance to divert attention from the bedroom scene. They began to construct the myth of McCarthy's great power and his menace to liberty...
...Saturday afternoon the spectators watching a race from the balcony of the Boat House suddenly crashed through the termite-eaten floors. At the University's suggestion, New York alumni donated $25,000 to construct Newell Boat House. For some reason the donors specified a Japanese-type building, with ornate decorations to "harmonize with Soldiers Field." When the last spires were being attached, a workman, following the precedent of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, kicked over a can of hot creosote. The structure was burnt to the ground, and the alumni were singed too--for the $15,000 necessary to rebuild...
Grants are constantly running out. To provide for what may be a serious financial situation, the Dean, with former Massachusetts Governor Bradford, has launched a stabilization and consolidation program. They are aiming for $12,000,000. If plans run according to schedule, they will use this money to construct a seven story annex to the school's main building. Part of it will go towards establishing a more permanent endowment fund. And the rest, with other ten-year grants, will build on the school's program to assure life tenure for senior faculty members...
...might construct a little museum of sermonic models that were much used, but are now obsolete and ought to be retired . . . [One is the] Rocking Horse Sermon . . . which moves but does not go on, always charging but never advancing. Then there is what might fairly be called the Mockingbird Sermon . . . all the notes of someone else, either stolen or just imitated...
...still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...