Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influx began about three years ago because of complementary conditions in the U.S. and Germany. The U.S., unbombed and eating well, produced bumper postwar harvests of singers, but had few opera houses in which to employ them, while Germany had rebuilt its 80 opera houses faster than it could replace their depleted ranks of singers. Americans flocked in, were often hired over Germans of comparable ability simply because of their healthy good-looks. German audiences, with their insatiable hunger for opera (Munich alone puts on more performances in a year than all major U.S. companies combined), showed no resentment...
...thanks to the generosity of one anonymous donor, they got control of the present Brattle Theater, rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide a social center for Harvard and Radcliffe. The older part of the building had been a Lutheran church for many years. And the present location of the art gallery and of the Club Casablanca was used occasionally as a police...
...organization. He predicted the ignominious defeat of Capehart and other Republicans in Indiana next November. While his lieutenants sour-graped that control of the Indiana G.O.P. would be worthless in the great defeat, Jenner was saying that the Republican Party, ruined by the Eisenhower leadership, must be destroyed and rebuilt on the Jenner pattern...
...Dodge drove the "formidably entrenched army of Government spenders" as far back as he could, and rebuilt the budget barricades. Hughes operates somewhat more snugly behind them. Nonetheless, he is out of bed, in his northwest Washington apartment, at 5:30 a.m. to read for an hour. At 7 o'clock his wife, Dorothy (they met at a Science church in 1918 in Shanghai, where her father, James Cowen, worked for Millard's Weekly and Hughes was working for the National City Bank branch), announces that she is ready with breakfast: orange juice, one egg, two strips...
PITTSBURGH: Rebuilt Golden Triangle, at junction of Allegheny (below) and Monongahela Rivers, replaced slum site of old shacks and railroad yards with park and airy buildings. part of an answer to a problem that has plagued most American cities with increasing insistency since the end of World War II. While suburbs have boomed, the business and residential hearts of cities have choked and decayed. Downtown areas, crowded with traffic, have withered and become blighted, cost more in municipal services (while returning less in taxes) and threatened cities with economic strangulation...