Word: rebuilder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war, Dudley had a semblance of a library, but it was removed to Widener during the lean years when the number of commutes, along with total enrollment, was at a low ebb. Failure to rebuild this collection has meant that Dudley's patrons receive less benefit than any other group from the University's matches library facilities. The inequality may be removed when the Lamont undergraduate library is completed at some unknown future date. Meanwhile, provision should be made so that commuters--numbering considerably more than the membership of the average House--do not continue to be poor...
...York, the president of one of the refining companies promptly announced that his firm would rebuild on the same spot, because Texas City was too well located to be killed by a single disaster. But others standing on the football field in the chill evening, at the mass funeral service, were not so sure about Texas City's tomorrows. The false sunset from the waterfront still rouged their set faces. And in the ruined center of town, the big clock on the Magnolia garage was still stopped dead...
...many a European mind the yearning was there, deep and ancient. If the partitions of Europe were dissolved, if a union of nations were achieved-might there not be more peace and plenty than the living could remember? Especially after the wars, when weakened nations struggled to rebuild, the idea grew...
Financial and housing problems have forced postponement of a joint American Veterans Committee-Student Council plan to send students to France to help rebuild the University of Caen. Originally scheduled for this summer, the project will not go into effect until...
When the new King says "We," he speaks as a husband, not as a sovereign. Always interested in youth movements, King Paul, as Crown Prince, has long planned a work corps of young Greeks, probably to be called the Volunteer Corps of St. George, to rebuild Greek roads. Last February, as Paul outlined the plan to a TIME correspondent, Frederika interjected: "And of course, my dear, you will go out and set an example with a shovel." "Oh yes," he said, "and we'll get some of our Ministers out there too." And both, who make no secret...