Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Widespred speculation that the marchers would attempt to erect their shantytown on the Mall in front of the Capitol has preoccupied many Washington officials this week. Congressman William C. Kramer (R-Fla.), the author of the anti-riot provision of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, is pushing a bill to bar the marchers from erecting their shacks anywhere near the complex of federal buildings surrounding the Mail...
...rarely motivated to make important personal choices by abstract arguments. "A teeming population" and the possibility of toxic air and spoiled natural resources are less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child is personal. 30-33 per cent of all lower-income families...
...Recreation Department view is dubious. Houghton parents have suggested that the city might erect the classrooms around the perimeter of the field, leaving the inside for ballplayers. Even if this could not be done, one ball field could easily be relocated on another playground...
...million a week.' For loans on new or used houses, the association will accept bids to deliver mortgages within either three or six months. For houses yet to be started, it will accept mortgages to be delivered within a year-a condition that will enable builders to erect subdivisions without gambling on the future cost of financing. "The more flexible we are, the more money there will be for mortgage loans," says Lapin. "That should mean some reduction in costs for buyers, as well as a substantial increase in housing starts...
...session after session the tutors warned against any effort on the part of brachy students to usurp dolicho values. These values included organizing social clubs, participating in politics, driving cars, and walking erect...