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Word: constructed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight, all sorts of new problems and extraneous issues cropped up. Admiral Joy beefed up his inspection proposal by suggesting that air patrols as well as ground teams should be provided for. The Reds demanded the right not only to repair existing airfields in North Korea, but to construct new ones during the armistice period. Their argument: "wanton bombing" by the U.N. had deprived them of adequate air defenses. In spite of two roaring stoves in the conference tent, the air was chilly with frigid language and stale with monotonous repetition. Admiral Joy said that U.N. forces were willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Item 3 | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...question, for who can tell whether a soldier fought and died because he was patriotic, or because he was drafted? Chaplain Sannwald may have been motivated by religious principles which demanded that he minister to all those in need, rather than by love of country. It is sentimentality to construct a memorial plaque on the mere assumption that all those whose names are listed died out of patriotism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Purpose? | 12/7/1951 | See Source »

...Construct a permanent Canadian army base at Soest, on the edge of the Ruhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Back to Germany | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...with the new heating demands. So, University officials opened negotiations in 1914 with the City of Cambridge for the use of surplus steam generated by the Boston Elevated power house, located where Eliot House now stands. On March 3, 1914 the Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted Harvard permission to construct a steam tunnel to Smith and Gore Halls and from there snake up Holyoke Street across Mt. Auburn and up Linden Street to connect with Widener. There were unpalatable strings attached, however, requiring that the City do all the constructional work at the University's cost...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Circling the Square | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

Plans for a College rink, however, have been indefinitely delayed because "a $700,000 drive to construct a rink fizied out after only $1,042,60 had been collected." Getchell added that "The only athletic facility that Harvard needs, and doesn't have, is a good hockey rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Will Get Full Use of Arena | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

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