Word: rebuilded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken 50 years to develop the great financial system of the U.S. which is now prostrate and in ruins. We cannot rebuild it in a day or a week. We can only do it step by step...
...moderate Marxism or Democracy] into a radical form. . . . Well, we will take up the struggle against this insanity! [thunderous cheers] Not because we are in love with Capitalism-I am myself a child of the lower classes [deafening huzzahs]-but because we want to spare the people. . . . We will rebuild the German Reich by tenacious work! . . . The rise of the German people cannot be prevented...
...find a scholarly work on a profound subject written with such complete absence of pedantry. Professor Becker carries his learning lightly and the evident relish with which his sophisticated intellect exposes the "rationalizations" and illusions of the men who "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials" gives a fine zest to his book. "The Heavenly City" is a treasure-chest for the student of the Revolution and it ought not to be missed by anyone who is interested in the development of "climates of opinion...
...Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance. He was last week defending a suit brought by his stockholders...
...Church of England brought no charges against Lawyer Machray. To rebuild the depleted fund, the income of which was from $60,000 to $70,000 a year, it was proposed that an appeal be sent to Anglican laymen throughout Canada. Saddest was the case of venerable, white- bearded Archbishop Matheson, onetime primate of all Canada. He admitted he had " lost everything," including $9,000 in savings, an $8,000 house...