Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like mice carrying away the stuffing of a mattress to build their nests, local seavengers are hollowing out the insides of the University library system. These pilferers of books, monographs, and examination papers are not bad men. They have just fallen victims to the idea that the man who uses a book has the right to own it. It's probably that these are times of social change for moral standards to be so out of whack, but the University cannot subscribe to this hazily defined philosophy of self-interest...
...thus became one of the first coeducational state universities in the country. But in 1852 the school had to close down from lack of funds; it did not reopen until 1867. Two years later, a scholarly non-Mormon gold prospector, Dr. John Rocky Park, became president and began to build what was to become the modern University of Utah...
...case, the deal gave the Levitts enough money to expand their building activities. They have bought 1,400 acres of Long Island farmland, plan to build 4,000 houses (complete with built-in television) on it this year to sell at their standard price...
...Many Christians think of Judaism as lurking behind a silken veil . . . Judaism is a rational, logical faith and the more questions we are asked the better we like it ... Good will between religions can never be achieved simply by mutual back-patting . . . We're going to have to build bridges...
...back at the old pitch, selling us a friendly, westernized, peace-loving Japan-a country of "know-how men." His spiel is no better than the pre-war brand. Aside from his neat logical fallacy in trying to destroy "war potential" and at the same time wanting to build up an army, he has ignored several other problems. One is the group of Japanese industrialists who saw the last war as a fine chance to pick up some markets and raw material sources. They are still in business. Another is the very reasonable doubt that five years of occupation...