Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
West Point is primarily associated in the public mind with rigidly erect, flawlessly neat, machinelike companies of cadets marching and countermarching over their parade ground on the Hudson Palisades. General Stewart was an ideal superintendent in such a conception: 31 years an infantryman, an expert and exacting drillmaster...
With head erect, refusing to be blindfolded, he faced the firing squad of six soldiers commanded by an officer. One last glance at the sun he took before he resigned himself to the inevitable. But as his glance swept downward he saw three U. S. newspaper correspondents and, recognizing them merely as foreigners, he waved his hand cheerily, calling out in English to them, "goodbye...
...Erect and martial, President Generalfeldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg arrived at Tannenberg, East Prussia, there to unveil a War memorial to the soldiers who fell in the historic Battle of Tannenberg...
...TIME, Oct. 1, 1923), he traveled to the U. S. to plead the cause of his mutilated country. Standing erect, well over six feet tall, gaunt & sinewy, his grizzled beard almost covering his necktie, he is a commanding figure. And speaking a dozen languages fluently?English almost perfectly?with a rare gift for oratory and inescapable charm, he has made himself a world-wide figure, known intimately, and usually beloved, by the statesmen of at least two continents. It is doubtful if the word of any living Hungarian carries as much moral weight as that of Count Apponyi...