Word: erecting
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...pacifist and jingoist alike, the issue is not whether we are to erect temporal barriers, which aggressive nations have continually disregarded, in the way of war, but whether we truly desire war. In the case of Japan it is hard to visualize any peaceful release for her excessive population unless the other Pacific powers permit immigration. The comfortable American bourgeois regards preparations for a clash with righteous alarm, but it is his determination to maintain his standard of living against intruding economic elements which will precipitate a struggle...
...spoke about establishing a high standard of living for everyone but did not mention definitely what criteria he would use to determine what this was or how he would erect a standard that would be acceptable to all people and for all times. In one breath Mr. Beard spoke about the high civilization and culture of the Orientals and at the same time said they should be excluded from the United States because they caused social conflict that was unresolvable. As in most of his utterances Mr. Beard stressed economic considerations to the exclusion of all other points of view...
With a gleam in his eye, but without his flashing smile, he boarded the train that took him back from Hyde Park to Washington. On the train he received his entourage of newshawks. Sitting erect, foursquare, with the bearing of a victor, he answered questions, but declined, with the same gleam in his eye, to speak of his victory. His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.* Whether uncrowned King, Moses, or lover, he was going forth to play his part with the confidence that his part...
...statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
...procession moved off, Marie of Rumania gave out almost at once, had to be whisked off in the Ford. Marie of Jugoslavia, though suffering from gallstones and ulcerated teeth, trudged with visible effort the whole three miles. Young King Peter walked erect, alert but so closely surrounded by a protective square of Jugoslavian officers that at times he could not be seen...