Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentence was chosen by Belgium's hero Cardinal, the late Desire Mercier, to serve as an inscription across the facade of the rebuilt Library of Louvain. To gentle yet righteously incensed Desire Mercier "furore" seemed none too harsh a word to apply to Huns; but nowadays there is a milksop movement afoot to emasculate the Louvain inscription until it could not possibly give offense to those jovial, harmless fellows the Germans, who sacked and burned the original Library of Louvain...
Among the features of the rebuilt Langdell Hall is the reading room, covering the entire second floor of the present edifice and the same floor on the adjoining twin structure. New facilities to make the library more easily accessible to students will be installed, and the capacity of the stacks will be increased to 500 volumes, allowing ample room for future growth. The present library which ranks as the most complete law collection in existence includes approximately 260,000 volumes. A periodical room is also planned...
...garage in Texas reports that during 1927 it rebuilt 123 planes and overhauled 432 engines...
...know," he said, settling himself in his chair, "I live in Greenwich. Connecticut. Well, about two years ago, my own house burnt down, and I had it rebuilt. I moved in with my family though before the workmen were through and well, the play is just a dramatization of my summer vacation. And then, lots of the other things, the Junior Dance and so forth that I mention in the play they actually do have them in Greenwich...
...unborn are in the hands of the Elevated's engineers. In an age of more than one kind of acceleration the names of the quick of yesterday are often to be found in the columns of the dead of to-day. It is to be hoped that the rebuilt mausoleum rising from the paying will provide no excuse for the classical use of the mausoleum as one's final resting place...