Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question is sometimes asked, why do men instinctively pay tribute, dedicate memorials, seek in a hundred different ways to perpetuate the memory of those who have lived inspiring lives or died inspiring deaths. What purpose does it serve, for instance, aside from common courtesy and gratitude, to erect the Lincoln Memorial Building or the fountains, obelisks and group figures in every town to the fallen soldiers in the world war. Certainly these material tributes are too often architectural monstrosities...
...likewise to be sold, there hurried to view them last week, at historic "No. 20," Her Majesty Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain, who is visiting her cousin, the King Emperor. Soon Commoner Cohn will wreck his new-bought house-once the residence of the Marquis of Salisbury-will erect on its patrician site an apartment hotel...
Such a man, rich, cultured, a Liberal yet "conservative," may be expected to proceed cautiously at Washington with his duties as one of those who will erect Britain's Third Empire...
...Quincy sits the illustrious Congressional orator, John Randolph of Roanoke, pouting and shouting with grim intensity. If Sir Henry conquers, John Randolph will go to Europe on his winnings: Eclipse wins. John Randolph and the South are gallantly chagrined. Lafayette, with his Revolution limp, visits Boston and Bunker Hill, erect and vigorous at 70, with a most serviceable brown wig. As Governor Lincoln's aide, young Quincy rides beside the hero through an ovation "by bells, cannon and human lungs" from a transported citizenry which "was then homogeneous and American." In 20 tents on Boston Common, 1,200 persons...
...mechanical age, perhaps realizing that the means of transportation and the aid to labor which was the custom of all previous centuries should not be allowed to fade entirely from the mind of man, has seen fit to erect a lasting memorial to the horse. A section of the American Museum of Natural History is to be set aside for relics of the horse age; skeletons, plaster casts, paintings--all recalling the day when the horse was the rule, not the exception are to be stored therein. If the children of tomorrow are to be deprived of the sight...