Word: erect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Names. It was, for the most part, the age of Charles W. Eliot, for 40 years (1869-1909) Harvard's president and the grand seigneur of U.S. education. He was an erect and lofty gentleman, who "always had a fight on my hands," and who could be both imperious and impatient in waging it. "Do you suppose," an awed acquaintance once whispered to a colleague, "that anyone has ever called him Charley...
Says Dart: "These intelligent, energetic, erect and delicately-proportioned little people were as competent as any other primitive human group in cavern life made comfortable by the use of fire, in the employment of long bones as lethal weapons, in the cunning and courage of the chase and in internecine strife...
...Search. The erect old guide told how he came to find Machu Picchu. After searching old texts, studying old charts, he said, he had concluded that somewhere in the Andes was an Inca capital that the Spanish never reached. Thereupon, he had gone out from Cuzco with a group of eager young scientists, had struck down the might gorge of the Urubamba canyon. Finally, on a muleteer's grudging tip, Bingham crawled up the peak known as Machu Picchu. There, under trees and matted vines, lay the lost city...
Protests from eight irate inhabitants of 20 Walker st. greeted workmen yesterday morning when they arrived to erect 28-inch-high window steps in each of the four third floor bedrooms...
Then a German police car and a U.S. MP jeep arrived (they had been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded...