Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that $1,500,000 is immediately available to build the station. Furthermore, the Church makes $40,000 to $50,000 a year from its interest in Salt Lake commercial Station KSL. An examiner for the F.C.C. therefore reported that "the applicant is financially, legally, technically, and otherwise qualified to construct and operate the proposed station...
...Winding up his Maritime Commission job, Joseph Kennedy (in San Francisco last week to sign a subsidy agreement with big Dollar Steamship Line) announced that he had already signed long-term agreements providing a $7,359,000 annual subsidy to seven U. S. shipping companies which have promised to construct 43 new vessels at a cost...
...While the loan might frustrate complainant's hopes of a profitable investment," droned Justice Sutherland, "it would not violate any legal right. . . . Each of the municipalities in question has authority to construct its proposed plant and distribution system in competition with petitioner, and to borrow money, issue bonds and receive grants for that purpose." The Court further announced that it would dispose of the Duke Case on similar grounds...
Dictionary of American English lists words that 1) originated in the U.S. 2) have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...
There are, however, two forceful arguments against this procedure. First, only about $40,000 will be available yearly as the interest income on the bequest, and this is a very small sum on which to operate a graduate school, much less to construct buildings. Second, graduate schools of journalism have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their...