Word: constructed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that in a few lessons, without the benefit of rules of grammar, he can promote one to a state in which "it's almost like learning the grammar of your own language." I make no such pretentious claim for my course. You have taken halves of two sentences to construct a statement which does not represent my views. The effect has been rather to make me look like a proponent of Russian-in-5-easy-lessons. Learning Russian well is difficult and time-consuming whether done in Slavic A, in my course, or anywhere else...
Dunster House will construct a science library next year to honor its retiring Master, Gordon M. Fair. At the annual President's Dinner last night. President Pusey announced plans for the Fair Memorial Library and launched an $8000 drive for funds...
...School has planned to construct only one building with Program money, the Countway Library of Medicine. The Program allocated $7.5 million for the library and has already passed the amount specified for the modern structure...
...East Germany, he had at his disposal all that a playwright could materially desire: his own theatre, his own company, virtually unlimited state support...and yet he failed to produce the 'positive' play expected of him. This incapacity to praise the world which the Socialist camp hoped to construct has frequently been traced to an alleged reluctance with which Brecht embraced Stalinism, but there is little evidence to support this theory. It seems clear that his negativism was rooted more in psychological than political soil: his fundamental interest was not the constructive process, but disintegration...
Negotiations for the contract are expected to be completed late this week after changes in the preliminary agreement. Venezuela reportedly hopes to construct a new interior city for government business--like Brazils' new Brazilia...