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Word: erectible (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait...in just a few more years Harvard will no doubt take it upon itself to supass this Tiger monstrosity and erect an even bigger, more expensive sacrifice to the sporting gods--with twice as many squash and handball courts. Why will Harvard undertake such a misdirected project...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme dela Cramer | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...Kennedy Corporation, a non-profit development firm, plans to erect a $27-million memorial library and museum on the northeast corner of the 12.2 acre MBTA yards across from Eliot House and will sell Harvard nearly half its land for construction of the University building...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Pei Visits Harvard to Discuss JFK Building | 5/2/1974 | See Source »

UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN AN enlarged and responsible vision of humanistic studies may have serious shortsights. When Stott runs up against the interface of thirties culture and thirties society and the bridges between them that he set out to erect, he falls short. Stott's assessment of documentary expression remains primarily an aesthetic one. For all its decency and moral content, it offers us no handles with which to grasp the relationship between the cultural movement and the society in which it flourished...

Author: By William E. Forbath, | Title: Smiling Sharecroppers | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Jacobses to track down the shoe's designer, Anne KalsØ, a yoga teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels into soft terrain. Returning to Denmark, she perfected a primitive version of today's shoe and tested it herself on 500-mile hikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Down at the Heels | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...have a great respect for columnists-everybody from James Kilpatrick to Carl Rowan -they're all solid Americans") and arrives well prepared for his day's work after predawn study. A mediocre golfer who is pleased when he breaks 100, Sirica has wavy black hair, an erect bearing, and a healthy complexion that makes him appear some 15 years younger than his 69. The Siricas have three children: Jack, 20, Patricia, 17, and Eileen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Making of a Tough Judge | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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