Word: construction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gestures of defiance American students have devised another method for the outlet of their political emotions. There are model Leagues of Nations, model Congresses, model Conferences. There are huge peace delegations, there are yearly hegiras to Geneva, there are pamphlets urging the Christian precepts of peace. Students discuss, suggest, construct methods for a cleanly local government, an omniscient national government, an everlasting, international peace. These are doubtless all very pleasing intellectual exercises and they may produce some excellent suggestions, but students labor under a difficulty which is well nigh insurmountable. Most undergraduates are visionary for they have spent their years...
...order to house its recent acquisition of the Naumberg rooms, the Fogg Museum is this winter planning to construct a new wing, final plans of which have not yet been decided. The Museum in its present state is very complete; its library has probably the best Fine Arts collection of any University. But for the use of its facilities, the Museum needs, more than the added exhibition rooms or even the new social rooms, enlarged library space...
Instead of being thrown into penury. Horse Doctor Doyle set himself up as a special pleader before the Board of Standards & Appeals. Such a position requires no legal experience. Word soon got round that if you wanted to locate a garage in a restricted neighborhood or construct a building out of unapproved material, the man to "see" was "Doc" Doyle. By 1930. aged 60, the genial little man had acquired nine children and more than a million dollars...
Unexpected Husband is very coarse and, for the most part, quite funny. It is the work of Barry Conners (Applesauce, The Patsy), who has managed to construct a lively, summery farce without becoming sleazy...
...subject and feel sure that I will receive a real unbiased answer from your staff. I cannot believe that this problem has not been solved, but would like to know, inasmuch as I am a tax payer in Los Angeles, which city is contemplating a large bond issue to construct an aqueduct to bring some of the Boulder Dam water to Los Angeles...