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Word: reconstruction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Striding into the restaurant La Bombilla, General Zertuche proceeded to reconstruct the crime. By his stern order not so much as a plate or saucer had been moved. There was the table at which Mexico's one-armed hero had sat down to luncheon, beaming and bowing amid plaudits. Next to his blood-stained bullet-riddled chair was that upon which had sat Governor Aaron Saenz of Nuevo Leon, conversing jovially with Obregon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...that the Soviet oil industry has barely attained the pre-War level. He does not add that the Soviet authorities took over Russian oil fields five or six years ago with equipment almost completely destroyed by forces with which Deterding is not entirely familiar. Soviet money was used to reconstruct the industry almost from the bottom up to its present level, and this reconstruction required about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Doomed? | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...preface to the volume, Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 explains that the speeches were not originally designed for publication, but that at popular demand the speakers were obliged to amplify and reconstruct the rough notes made for the speeches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW VOLUME WILL HOLD P. B. H. TALKS | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

...reconstruct the life of Rome in the first three centuries of the Christian era," said Professor George La Piana, who has just returned to this country, to a Crimson reporter yesterday, "has been the purpose of my four months' stay in Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA PIANA TELLS OF WORK ON EARLY ROMAN LIFE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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