Word: construction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such work with ordinary storage and washing service. None has found it more profitable than a group of capitalists and practical automobile men operating garages in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Last week this group incorporated for $500,000 in Michigan as National Garages, Inc., and announced its intention to construct standard garages under one management in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Rochester and Manhattan...
Meanwhile naval architects reflected that the "M" or "Monitor" class of submarine had been developed by the British Admiralty during the War, and constituted a class of "super mystery ships" which were never employed against the Germans for fear of rousing them to construct a similar and equally deadly naval...
...play, in addition, is curiously constructed, some may say poorly construct- ed, for the curtain comes down at the end of a first act provoking interest by its lack of dramatic climax. The second and third acts hold the attention remarkably. The suave scheming deacon, a lovable hypocrite and generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast...
...Again, the appeal to facts makes it clear that somehow out of the continuity of progress real differences have emerged. When the cow pauses on the hillside to admire the view, when the dog ceases to bay at the moon in order to construct a system of astronomy, then and not till then will we believe that there are no differences between man and other animals...
Many a man finishes college with his earlier standards completely thrown down and nothing set up in their place. To revent to religion goes as much against his reason as to construct a new order goes beyond his ability. For such a man the difference between the super-natural--the resort of all religious teachers--and the natural--the real world of today--is merely the difference between ignorance and knowledge. The great need of the times is for a new Secrates to arise in the Universities and establish once for all, independently of super-natural hypotheses, that "Virtue...