Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching of history which degenerates to this point will bear quite as heavy a burden of guilt in failing to prepare new generations for the future as did that before 1914. We shall have still more generations whose efforts to rebuild society may be compared to an attempt at scientific study of the English language without a knowledge of Latin ... rootless...
...great Chicago fire of 1871, some 18,000 buildings and houses were destroyed, forcing Chicagoans to rebuild their city on new, more modern lines. Since then the "new" buildings have deteriorated, and large areas surrounding the downtown Loop district have long since turned into slums. Last week a group of Chicago business men announced a bold plan to cure this costly civic sore. The plan: spend $400 million in the next seven years to demolish the cheap hotels, rooming houses and honky-tonks that greet visitors approaching Chicago's thriving Loop, replace them with a cluster of new buildings...
Thomas Whedon, as the lead, had a difficult role: that of a man trying to rebuild his life after it went to pieces. His hulking, patient stance and his ungraceful motions put across the sincerity and the touch of despair that his part demanded. Whedon's delivery, however, was a little monotonous, particularly in the opening lines...
...stone, and shipped (in 35,000 pieces weighing 2,500 tons) to the U.S. It cost Hearst more than half a million dollars and ten years of effort to get his treasure home. By that time, even Hearst was reluctant to spend the additional sum it would cost to rebuild the monastery on his San Simeon estate. Instead, he stored it in a warehouse in The Bronx, and there Sacramenia's monastery languished, one of the most monumental white elephants in art history...
...cannot deny the pleasure of skating till we have bumped heads, and bleedy noses, and the ice is like glass. Oh what joy and pleasure as we get together, to go for the Christmas tree, what air castles we build as we slide down the hill, who can rebuild what we see on that Christmas tree. Oh, those days of childhood...