Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week, when the excavating will be completed, workmen will construct the wooden forms for the cement walls. A few days later the din of concrete mixers will begin. Consisting of three floors, the basement will house rows upon rows of stacks. Each floor is seven feet, six inches high, an easy height for reaching books...
Trelawny also met Byron. Yachting, Trelawny found, was almost as popular among the Pisan expatriates as poetry and revolution. He got a boatbuilder friend to construct the Bolivar for Byron, the Ariel for Shelley. One day Shelley, a very bad sailor, sailed off with two friends and copies of Sophocles and Keats. A few days later their bodies were washed ashore. Trelawny built more funeral pyres. While Byron and Leigh Hunt tossed incense, salt, sugar and wine, Trelawny lit the flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements...
...promise as a means of achieving "a better world," arose a question. Would the Draft Act serve to strengthen and unite youth in a common consciousness, as the C.C.C. and N.Y.A. legislation has done? Or would conscription deaden youth's capacity to criticize, to hope, and to construct? In the answer to that question lies our contribution to "that unknown future where free men must and shall exist...
...Even in those days," declared Mr. Suma, "I felt Mr. Wang's patriotic ardor, his zeal to construct a rejuvenated China. You know, he is quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from...
...said the report, had shown abuses, waste of funds, politics in the administering of relief. WPA funds had been used to exterminate rats in New Orleans at $2.97 a rat, to build golf courses for the wealthy, to improve a yacht basin for a yacht club, to construct a ski jump in New Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used to build a race track which was later...