Word: erect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-century before some newspaper friends persuaded a highly-placed official to listen to his story. Last session that listener, Illinois' Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, put through Congress a resolution to investigate Carter's claim that he was a "U. S. Dreyfus." Last week Oberlin Carter, still erect at 79, marched into a Chicago hotel room to present the case for vindication of his honor and recovery of his fortune to Wisconsin's Senator F. Ryan Duffy, as chairman of a sub-committee of the Senate Military Affairs Committee...
...announced that the Mediterranean fleet would "cruise" for the time being in such fashion as to command the mouth of the Suez Canal. Other British war boats strengthened Gibraltar and Red Sea points. Fifty miles off Italy on the British island naval base of Malta orders from London to erect shelters against air bombs were excitedly obeyed. Some 1,000 troops were ordered to sail from England to bring the Malta garrison up to full strength. Even more ominously the aircraft carrier Furious was rushed full steam from Gibraltar to Malta with three squadrons of planes aboard. These drastic British...
Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands...
...each with eight oars protruding, lined up like as many centipedes on the west side of the Hudson river, each held in place by a marker bost. That is the scene upon which the spectators in the 40 flatcars look. The official yacht draws up astern. An old, but erect man, Julian W. Curtiss, a Yale oarsman of the seventies and referee for almost three decades, steps forward...
...started the American munitions industry in 1642 when he got an act through the General Court of Massachusetts ordering the production of such materials "as will perfect the making of gunpowder, the instrumental means that all nations lay hould on for their preservation. . . . Every plantation within the colony shall erect a house in length about 20 or 30 foote, and 20 foote wide within one half year next coming ... to make saltpetre from urine of men, beastes, goates, hennes, hogs and horses' dung...