Word: erect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more beautiful surroundings. On principle, this is a very superficial method of raising religious ideals. And in practice, it would be a stupendous mockery. Certainly if the function of a memorial is to equal its symbolic significance, a new chapel is the last type of edifice to erect on Harvard ground. Among the architect's plans there is a chapel capable of seating a congregation of 2,000. Yet, only a few days ago, the University advisor in religion remarked that even Appleton is too large for ordinary services. The new chapel may be filled three times a year, notably...
...shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long skis Chiogna crouched in the Schneider position invented by Tyroleans who cannot use on their steep slopes the erect position of the Norwegians. A diminishing spot on the peakside, he shot down into the valley, while his passage automatically formed the connections that told how fast he was going. Turning, he hurried to the nearest official to find out what his time had been. His top speed...
Last week she was summoned before Referee Samuel Seabury, ordered up into the witness stand, like any common crook, put under oath, examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
Many a citizen of Udine, Italy, home of giant Fisticuffer Primo Camera, made the pilgrimage to nearby Gemona to inspect a colossal statue of Camera, whom they rank with their great men. They voted to erect the statue, when completed, in an Udine square...
...marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin. The upper part of the erect torso is realistically rounded. The lower part is an. exaggerated rotundity of all anatomy. The thighs (they are cut off just above the knees) are portly kegs. Focus of all the curves is the gestation. Commented the Daily Express: "You white foulness! This man cracks bad jokes with a chisel!" An interpreter...