Word: reconstructing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tusk, and small fragments of jawbone. From these scanty remains, the scientists deduced that the beast stood some 7-ft. tall at the withers, was a little smaller than later mastodons and a little bulkier than modern elephants. Now, if Dr. Simpson was correct, they would be able to reconstruct the whole Miomastodon head...
...near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...
Littauer's curriculum is too delicately adjusted to the inexperienced to fully reconstruct the old, professional days. But the school can still use some old hands in government. Although there are a few of them in the School's agriculture and foreign service programs, their work is too specialized to serve the purpose of the old Littauer Fellowships...
Against considerable opposition, he siphoned off $13 million in counterpart funds to reconstruct "the minds and hearts of the Germans," rebuilt universities, pumped another $3.5 million into a capital pool which new democratic newspapers could use for buying themselves out from under ex-Nazi owners...
...inception of this program will be one of the largest and most dramatic educational departures taken by the University since the war. By establishing tutorial for all, it will reconstruct the balance between the lecture system which provides knowledge impersonally by means of dictation, and small-group education which stimulates discussion. Moreover, it fashions the House system into a real center of the University's intellectual life...