Word: construction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government in China not because we like Chiang, nor because we wanted to back a winner, but because he was staunchly anti-communist. It would have taken diplomatic courage to have shifted to the Chinese Communists when we had a chance; or to have moved fast and incisively to construct a government out of the few "liberals" in the country at the time. But we couldn't possibly have gotten into a worse mess than we are now in. We also supported the present Greek government, with the Truman Doctrine, not because we like corruption or fascism, but because...
Last spring there were persistent rumors that Harvard planned to construct the new Medical Research Center on the Dunster Street site when the current lease expired, but last night Jim Cronin, owner of the beer emporium, announced that a 15 year lease had been signed...
Last week officials triumphantly announced that the Equitable Life Assurance Society had agreed to take on the financing of a spectacular $50 million project to clear 23 acres of the Triangle's point, convert it into a park and construct three modern office buildings...
...Secretariat alone would cost some $21 million to construct. For its money, U.N. would doubtless get an efficient workshop. Would the glass & marble shell also look monumental enough for the purpose? Argued the FORUM: "In Washington, a hundred years ago, monumentality was columns. On the East River, now, it is construed as serenely simple geometry, akin to the pyramids...
...Pitman Studio grew out of a hobby twenty years ago when the Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum asked Pitman to help him construct an Indian model for the Buffalo Museum of Science. At first, Pitman worked only nights and week-ends but soon he became so fascinated by the work that he gave up his regular business in Boston to devote his entire time to the making of models. The Buffalo Museum liked the first production enough to order a complete set of Indian models and, with this contract, the Pitman Studio became a full time operation...