Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported to the House Appropriations Committee that the roof of the White House has settled since 1912, when it was repaired, that the trusses supporting it have slipped and that much of its weight now rests on interior partitions. He said the roof should be repaired and the attic rebuilt, but it would cost $500,000 and the President did not approve of the expenditure at present...
...Interior Rebuilt...
...destroyed Parliament building, rebuilt after a former fire 30 odd years ago, "it was universally conceded to have been improved by the calamity." Built at the worst "period" of Occidental architecture, it had become delapidated with the decades; and plans for a new building have been in progress for years...
...Hall it could be changed into a place of worship most suitable to commemorate the services of Harvard's dead. It is his belief also that the necessary alterations would be few as the outside of the building is somewhat cathedral in appearance and the inside could be easily rebuilt...
...since 1920, to reorganize Yale out of all recognition, and the unfairly large burden assumed in the process by Mr. Harkness through his manifold benefactions to his alma mater. The sons of Eli are a stiff-necked breed and there are many who feel that for Yale to be rebuilt, reorganized and replenished by the devotion of any single graduate is unnecessary and undignified...