Word: erection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more appropriate organization could be named as the one to erect a memorial to Joseph Conrad than the Seaman's Institute. And in choosing a Library--to be built in New York--as the most fitting monument to the late writer the Institute has exercised good judgment, for thus will be united the two strongest influences in Conrad's life literature and the sea. The announcement of the members of the honorary committee elected to act with the Board of Managers is sufficient proof that the library will be proportionate to the genius of the man whose name it bears...
Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left his house, penniless, after two years of intense, secret waiting, to marry the man whom she loved and he did not. He was certainly proud of her when, after willing his house to pale-handed nuns, founding a women's refuge" in Chicago and providing that Myra could always...
Grateful, President Masaryk feted Mrs. Wilson at Prague last week. With him she discussed at length the recent League Assembly at Geneva which she had just attended (TIME, Sept. 20). Together they visited Wilson Park, in Prague, that Mrs. Wilson might choose the site on which Praguers will soon erect a Wilson Monument...
Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
...million years, other creatures ruled Mongolia. They were warm-blooded, milk-giving, viviparous-mammals from tiny moles to a shaggy monster with columnar legs and a neck long enough to browse on treetops, a sort of elephantine giraffe. . . . After several millions of years there grew up in mammalia an erect Two-Legs who learned to use tools...